Splendid Quotes

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

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

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

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.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

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

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

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

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

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

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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