Quotes About Majesty

Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older     one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty     King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this     miserable universe." Sorel

Todo el mundo ve lo que parecéis, pocos conocen a fondo lo que sois, y este pequeño numero no se atreverá a levantarse contra la mayoría, sostenida, además, por la majestad del poder soberano.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more convincing than the best photograph. It fairly took my breath away. It made me want to laugh.

USUMCASANE: To be a king, is half to be a god.

Menaphon : Your Majestie shall shortly have your wish, And ride in triumph through Persepolis. Tamburlaine : And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Is it not brave to be a King, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave to be a King, And ride in triumph through Persepolis?

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

Facta est grando et ignis

imperial mark, His skin is soft and lustrous dark. Large are his eyes that sweetly shine With majesty almost divine. His plighted word he ne'er forgets; On erring sense a watch he sets.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.

Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues which have one vice,—error.

All this is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.

It was otherworldly somehow, magical in its vast expanse, an incomparable landscape of soaring glacier-filled white mountains that ran the length of the horizon, knife-tip points pressed high into a cloudless cornflower-blue sky.

Leni looked around. The beauty of this place, the majesty of it, was overwhelming. A deep and abiding peace existed here; there were no human voices, no thumping footsteps, no laughter or engines running. The natural world spoke loudest here, the breathing of the tide across the rocks, the slap of water on the float plane's pontoons, the distant barking of sea lions lumped together on a rock, being circled by chattering gulls.

Glory?....Glory belongs to God alone.

Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.

Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun.

Most people say it makes them feel smaller. Like the world is so big, it makes

She beckoned me to follow her, and we passed from the portico into rooms whose magnificence has stolen the words from the mouths of the poets.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

God is great! Nothing and no one can take that greatness away from Him.