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Quotes About Majesty

You're really not going to like it, observed Deep Thought. Tell us! All right, said Deep Thought. The answer to the Great Question... Yes...! Of Life, the Universe and Everything... said Deep Thought. Yes...! Is... said Deep Thought, and paused. Yes...! Is... Yes...!!!...? Forty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question . . ." "Yes . . . !" "Of Life, the Universe and Everything . . ." said Deep Thought. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." said Deep Thought, and paused. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." "Yes . . . !!! . . . ?" "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
All right' said Deep Thought. 'The Answer to the Great Question . . .' 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' said Deep Thought, and paused. 'Yes . . . !' 'Is . . .' 'Yes . . . !!! . . . ?' 'Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
~ Douglas Adams
Elephants are quite enough.
~ Agatha Christie
This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.
~ Alan Gratz
Then centrifugal gravity took over, and with something close to majesty the skeletal spacecraft descended out of the repair bay as smoothly and elegantly as a falling chandelier.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
~ Lillie Langtry
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
~ Reinhold Messner
Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.
~ Rachel Hartman
The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Justice is the concern of every loyal subject, for an injustice committed by one who holds the King's commission is in some sense a dishonour to the King's majesty.
~ Rafael Sabatini
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
~ Randall Jarrell
Coming to Washington may be likened to coming to Rome during the Roman Empire.
~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Although there was no enemy or danger to be perceived, they felt the apprehension and doubt of those who have come unaware upon some awe-inspiring place where they themselves are paltry fellows of no account.
~ Richard Adams
To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.
~ Sophocles
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
~ Plutarch
If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.
~ Criss Jami
Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.
~ Deborah Harkness
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
~ George Herbert
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Greatest god below the sky.
~ Edmund Spenser