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Quotes About Majesty

Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.
~ Roberto Bolano
All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.
~ Robin Hobb
He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.
~ Ron Chernow
Oh Powers of Earth and Sky, what is it that you've brought back, to run wild once more upon the ridge of the world?
~ S.M. Stirling
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
~ Salman Rushdie
She, whose life had blown up, emptying her of history and leaving in its place only that dark dream of majesty, that illusion so powerful that it demanded to enter the sphere of what-was-real - she, rootless Bilquis, who now longed for stability, for no-more-explosions, had discerned in Raza a boulder-like quality on which she would build her life. He was a man rooted solidly in an indeflectible sense of himself, and that made him seem invincible.
~ Salman Rushdie
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
~ John Dryden
He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.
~ J.R. Ward
Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I have seen the heavens open, the sea rage and foam, the storm rise in a patch of sky and like a gigantic eagle beat the two horizons with its wings.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Then two dark figures appeared. One of them, tall, majestic, stern, sat down near the table on which Van Baerle had placed the taper.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.
~ Alfred de Vigny
there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.
~ Alice Walker
You don't plan... to fight, Your Majesty?' 'Bloody hell, no. But I plan to damn well look like I might.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.
~ Walter Farley
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
~ E. H. Chapin
Even Lions have compassion some time
~ Eddy M Reyes
The united voice of all His Majesty's free and loyal subjects in America—liberty and property, and no stamps.
~ Anonymous
He is Lord of lords, and King of kings.
~ Anonymous
The cedars of Lebanon.
~ Anonymous
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
~ Anonymous
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.
~ Anonymous
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
~ Anonymous