Splendid Quotes

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.