Glorious Quotes

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward

Treat, Wit, Caviar

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Literature, Oh

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie

Life, Success, Yourself

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
John Thorn

Heart, Snow, Game

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott

Life, Men, Mean

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
William Shatner

Today, Few, Growing

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Future, Today, Enjoy

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir

Artist, Storms, Naturally

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush

Mother, Half, Hour

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
Stephen Jay Gould

Process, Results, Necessary

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Life, Making, Stand

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
David Lynch

Love, Sometimes, Idea

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I

King, Bear, Wear

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
River Phoenix

Car, Die, Accident

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons

Love, Men, True

It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
Ben Stein

Great, Beautiful, Sleep

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

Beauty, Wealth, Goes

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

Freedom, Made, Old

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson

Sad, Guilty, Ashamed

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
Barbara Kingsolver

Life, Time, After

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

Wealth, Goes, Virtue

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
John Cusack

Age, Time, Rock

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
Cate Blanchett

Marriage, Great, Long

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
Russell Baker

Fear, Nothing, Wrong

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
Isak Dinesen

Women, Real, Become

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Milan Kundera

Peace, Nothing, Boring

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
Alfred Einstein

Reality, Sometimes, Picture

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Martin Buber

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Staughton Lynd

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