Quotes About Grandeur

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

Roosevelt followed it8 with a quirky essay in The Outlook entitled "Dante and the Bowery," arguing that literary stylists had grown too precious in eschewing contemporary imagery. There was as much epic grandeur and poignant example to be found in modern life, he suggested, as there was in Greek myth, or for that matter, thirteenth-century cosmology.

More clearly than almost any other statesman he beheld the grandeur of the nation loom up, vast and shadowy, through the coming years.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Agenouillés, ils étaient ridicules, ils étaient fiers et beaux, et vivre était sublime.

It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

There is no way one can remake 'Mughal-e-Azam.' What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I love 'Lawrence of Arabia,' big sweeping films. I want my films to feel that way, to be on a big canvas.

The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.

Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

How Nature by extrinsic passion first / Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand' (Book I.)

Most great architecture is meant to impress the gods.

Buckingham Palace. They lifted their lanterns to reveal a vast cellar