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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. -- Edmund Waller
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse." -- Edmund Waller
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind. -- Charles James Fox
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. -- Mark Twain
Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. -- Nina Easton
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do. -- Artemisia Gentileschi
I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me. -- Geraldine McEwan
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. -- Sophocles
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. -- Martin Van Buren
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. -- Thomas Overbury
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. -- Paul Cezanne
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors. -- Deborah Sampson
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. -- Edmond About
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. -- Sallust
I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions. -- Joshua Ferris
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons. -- Donald Sinden
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. -- Joseph Addison
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. -- Martin Van Buren
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age. -- Benazir Bhutto
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. -- Adam Baldwin
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. -- John G. D. Clark
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. -- Knut Hamsun
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot. -- Paul Sabatier
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners! -- Deborah Sampson
Bright and illustrious illusions! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Children, to be illustrious is sad. -- Howard Nemerov
I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor. -- Martin Van Buren
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. -- Ambrose Bierce
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -- Joseph Addison
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. -- William Cowper
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. -- Sallust
The book thief has struck for the first time "? the beginning of an illustrious career. -- Markus Zusak
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. -- Lauren DeStefano
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience. -- Anne Lamott
Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. -- Fernando Pessoa
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground. -- Thomas Overbury
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. -- Confucius
That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death. -- Emily Dickinson
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. -- Abraham Lincoln
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels. -- Albert Einstein
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. -- James A. Baldwin
In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return. -- J.R. Rim
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country. -- Martin Van Buren
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. -- Edmond About
I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs. -- Sharon Stone
I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names. -- Erich Fromm
There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t. -- Quentin Tarantino
Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed. -- Confucius
You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity. -- Harold B. Lee
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. -- Marcus Aurelius
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. -- William Wordsworth
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. -- Victor Hugo
God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty. -- Stephen Charnock
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous. -- Pythagoras
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered. -- Ambrose Bierce

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