Splendid Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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