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Quotes About Corinthian

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
~ Edmund Burke
Our ancestral home is Blackwood Manor, an august if not overblown house in the grandest Greek Revival Style, replete with enormous and dizzying Corinthian columns, an immense structure on high ground.
~ Anne Rice
Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
~ Ferdinand Christian Baur