Splendid Quotes - Page 5

• Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

  Juvenal

  Men, Long, Envy

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• In the wake of her indispensable textbook, Janet Burroway now offers a splendid and concise guide to the thorny task of revision. Writers, young and old, will feel encouraged and enlightened by this excellent DVD which offers a wonderful range of specific advice and suggestive comments from a group of experienced and thoughtful writers.

  Margot Livesey

  Thoughtful, Dvds, Advice

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• As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Art, Men, Opposites

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marqués de Vauvenargues (1903). "La Bruyère y Vauvenargues: Selecciones de los Personajes, Reflexiones y Máximas"

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• Esto colma mi ambición. Todavía tengo la toga de mi padre como Canciller. Estaré orgulloso de servirle en este espléndido cargo.

  Winston Churchill

  Father, Ambition, Office

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• It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.

  Sophie Scholl

  Sunny Day, Sunny

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• Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

  John Barth

  Girl, Simple, Civilization

  L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library

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• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Childhood, Grace

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• ... una ciudad fea y encantadora ... que se arrastraba, se extendía ... junto a una larga y espléndida costa curvada. Esta ciudad marítima era mi mundo.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sea, Long, Lovely

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• La aventura suprema está naciendo. En ella entramos de repente en una trampa espléndida y sorprendente... Cuando entramos en la familia, al nacer, entramos en un mundo incalculable, en un mundo que tiene sus propias leyes extrañas, en un mundo que podría prescindir de nosotros, en un mundo que no hemos creado. En otras palabras, cuando entramos en la familia, entramos en un cuento de hadas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Aventura, Ley, Pasos

  "Herejes". Libro de Gilbert K. Chesterton, Capítulo XIV: "Sobre ciertos escritores modernos y la institución de la familia", 1905.

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• Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Mother, War, Heart

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Names, California

  Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.999, e-artnow

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• Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

  Victoria Hanley

  Reyes, Reinas, Dos

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• I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Pensar, Hablar, Personas

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.23, e-artnow

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• The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

  Papa Juan XXIII

  Light, Church, Council

  "Make the Catholic church pay for its shameful silence" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dust, Egypt, Gleam

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• The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happiness, Thinking, Feel Good

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Differences, Different

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• What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

  James M. Barrie

  Wish, Peter, Said

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cuán fatigoso es pasar la eternidad rindiendo culto a quien odiamos. No persigamos, pues, por fuerza imposible, por permiso obtenido Inaceptable, aunque en el Cielo, nuestro estado De espléndido vasallaje, sino más bien busquemos Nuestro propio bien de nosotros mismos, y de nuestro propio Vivir para nosotros mismos, aunque en este vasto receso, Libres, y a nadie responsables, prefiriendo la dura libertad antes que el fácil yugo De la pompa servil.

  John Milton

  Hate, Self, Liberty

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition”, p.66, Broadview Press

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• Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

  Brenda Ueland

  Believe, Hero, Ordinary

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Goal, Mind, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.452, Vintage

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• Ahora entendía por qué su amiga Elizabeth, con su mente analítica y casi genial, daba tanta importancia a los misterios de asesinatos, los thrillers psicológicos y las historias de terror, y sólo leía novelas románticas. Porque, por Dios, cuando una mujer cogía uno de aquellos vaporosos libros, tenía la firme garantía de que habría un "felices para siempre". Que aunque el mundo fuera de esas cubiertas podía traer tanta tristeza, decepción y soledad, entre esas cubiertas, el mundo era un lugar espléndido para estar.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Decepción, Soledad, Libro

  Publicación en FaceBook de Karen Marie Moning del 27 de Oct de 2014

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• Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Years, Practice

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.91, Library of Alexandria

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• Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Each Day, Becoming

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