Quotes About Grandeur

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale." John Kenneth Galbraith quoted in Money and Power

London, thou art the flower of Cities all.

The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.

She lived in a sort of ramshackle magnificence.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

A warrior's honor is his willingness to play a game on which he stakes everything. His grandeur is directly proportional to how far he can fall.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

The grandeur of God, the glory of His majesty.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.