Top 273 Splendor Quotes & Sayings

Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

So burrow in. Snuggle deep. A winter idyll of simple splendor awaits.

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.

Alabama is a land of bountiful natural beauty, and our state and local trails are a means to experience and enjoy that outdoor splendor.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar.

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.

If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.