Quotes About Splendid

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

all that is heroic, bright, and beautiful.

and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman

espléndida, tan alta y tan larga que el público aguantó la respiración sin dar crédito a lo que veían sus ojos.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving...

Sometimes in our lives we had stories of love, which we had thought one of those was for us. But life is an interminable journey of affection until you have finally found the one in God's splendid era.

when she heard the grand title and the great name, her face had taken on that indifferent look—no, more than indifferent, hostile, contemptuous—which is the sign of frustrated desire in proud and passionate natures. Albertine's nature was splendid, but its hidden qualities had been able to develop only under the restrictions constituted by our tastes, or our mourning for the tastes which we have had to renounce

He was now nothing but a ruin, but a splendid one; grander than a ruin, he had the romantic beauty of a rock beaten by a tempest. Scourged from every side by the waves of suffering, by rage at his suffering, his face, slowly crumbling like a block of granite almost submerged by the towering seas, retained the style, the suavity I had always admired.

To think that all those splendid footmen six feet high, who adorned the monumental staircases of our beautiful lady friends, have all been killed, most of them having joined up because people kept on telling them that the war would only last two months.

You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.

You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's. Up in the mountains, where the air is crisper than the humid atmosphere of Scirland, I beheld a beauty I had never before seen.

Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

Why not take a photograph of the fairies? It would stop the teasing once and for all. It would be splendid.

I dare anyone to find me a lovelier day!

Su cuerpo... su cuerpo... sí, su cuerpo es magnífico, espléndido, divino; pero es que su cuerpo es alma, alma pura, todo él vida, todo él significación, todo él idea!

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind.