Splendid quotes
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What a splendid head, yet no brain.
-- Aesop -
I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
-- Agnes Macphail -
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
-- Ansel Adams -
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
-- Clive Barker -
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
-- Doug Larson -
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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
-- Emily Carr -
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
-- Freddie Mercury -
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
-- George Orwell -
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
-- Herbert Kaufman -
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
-- Immanuel Kant -
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
-- John Cheever -
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
-- John Lothrop Motley -
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
-- Manfred von Richthofen -
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
-- Marilynne Robinson -
Splendid couple - slept with both of them.
-- Maurice Bowra -
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.
-- Octave Mirbeau -
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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.
-- Pablo Neruda -
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.
-- Patrick Süskind -
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
-- Pope John XXIII -
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.
-- Robert Wright -
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It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.
-- Rupert Hart-Davis -
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.
-- Sandra Gulland -
It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.
-- Sarah Orne Jewett -
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.
-- Sophie Scholl -
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
-- Victor Hugo -
There is no single advantage a woman of truly enduring fascination can possess that is so splendid as speaking with a foreign accent, whatever her origin.
-- Carole Nelson Douglas -
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.
-- Sandra Gulland
