Top 469 Splendid Quotes & Sayings

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

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

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

We have it in us to be splendid.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians of science will have cause to heap praise on this book, but so too will the non-specialists. The author's splendid writing style, at times appropriately Puckish, makes this work an accessible and enjoyable read.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Clayton," she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, "when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for my lack of all the others." Stephen and Clayton grinned at each other, neither of them hearing the emotion that clogged her voice. "What splendid accomplishments is that, little one?" Clayton asked. Her shoulders hunched forward and began to shake. "I made you love me," she whispered brokenly. "Somehow, some way, I actually made you love me.

Wasim Akram is a splendid human being and a thorough gentleman.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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

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

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

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

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Certainly, in the course of time, the splendid things will separate from the hateful.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?

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

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

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

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.