Splendid Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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