Quotations
Quotes:
A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
View quotes by John Selden
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glorious frailty of the noble mind
View quotes by John Hoole
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
View quotes by Nelson Mandela
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
View quotes by Noel Coward
Sing, my tongue, of the battle in the glorious struggle
View quotes by Venantius Fortunatus
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
View quotes by Sir Walter Scott
The light of his glorious fame still reaches out to me, falls upon me, and warms me.
View quotes by Julia Grant
Now is the winter of our discontent; Made glorious summer by this sun of York
View quotes by William Shakespeare
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
View quotes by Golda Meir
O blest unfabled Incense Tree,
That burns in Glorious Araby. (Nepenthe)
View quotes by George Darley
Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, Bred to deceive even from their earliest youth
View quotes by Anne Ingram
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
View quotes by Horatio Nelson
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God
View quotes by Evelyn Underhill
As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
View quotes by John Andre
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
View quotes by Lord Byron
Egypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of thought;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice' pride is nought.
View quotes by Mary Coleridge
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
View quotes by Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
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