Quotes About Magnificence

They were beautiful all right, but it was a huge, inhuman beauty...

when he was ædile, he provided such a number of gladiators, that he entertained the people with three hundred and twenty single combats, and by his great liberality and magnificence in theatrical shows, in processions, and public feastings, he threw into the shade all the attempts that had been made before him, and gained so much upon the people, that every one was eager to find out new offices and new honors for him in return for his munificence.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

And evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Noi, pamantenii, avem talentul de a distruge tot ce e mare si frumos. Singurul motiv pentru care n-am instalat tarabe cu crenvursti in templul egiptean de la Karnak este pentru ca nu avea vad si nu oferea nici un beneficiu comercial deosebit.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it

And here he was, the great one himself, scorching us all with his rays of glory.

The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors.

There are three things we cry for in life - things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

St. John's House was a new block of extremely expensive flats. There were sumptuous window boxes and uniformed porters of such magnificence that they looked like foreign generals.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

A small bad intention is often far more easily believed than a big one, Magnificence

There are sunsets above other oceans, Ghuda. Mighty sights and great wonders to behold.

The curve of my spine was so elegant. I felt deeply moved that, in all the years of having these shoulders, this spine, this back, I had never noticed how it was a line of poetry—an overture to the magnificence of the human body. I realized in that moment that women have no clue about our own beauty; no clue about the connection between pleasure and time; no clue about this deep, delicious, endlessly replenishing source of divinity within each of us.

A] proper understanding of the magnificence of the real world, while never becoming a religion, can fill the inspirational role that religion has historically - and inadequately - usurped.

This is extravagant but so is God

The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction

You are magnificent because you are so uniquely you

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

There's something so magnificent about you. And as you love yourself, you'll love others.

Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.