Quotations
Quotes:
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
View quotes by W B Yeats
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Harper's Magazine, 1949)
View quotes by Bernard De Voto
Don't think, feel!
It is like a finger pointing away to the moon.
Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
View quotes by Bruce Lee
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
View quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Women must pay for everything... They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, also, women get more notoriety when they crash.
View quotes by Amelia Earhart
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, (Human Nature)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
View quotes by Louisa May Alcott
'I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.'
View quotes by Harriet Tubman
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. (A Hero of our Time)
View quotes by Mikhail Lermontov
When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
View quotes by Pierre Corneille
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it
View quotes by Moliere
Men do not weigh the stalk for that it was,
When once they find her flower, her glory, pass. (Delia)
View quotes by Samuel Daniel
There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell
View quotes by William Sherman
Football is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom
View quotes by Danny Blanchflower
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (No Cross, No Crown)
View quotes by William Penn
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.
View quotes by Queen Elizabeth I
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
View quotes by Cicero
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
View quotes by Victor Hugo
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
View quotes by Duc De La Rochefoucauld
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
View quotes by Epicurus
