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I like to be surrounded by splendid things. -- Freddie Mercury
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. -- Winston Churchill
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? -- Pablo Casals
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. -- Denis Waitley
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? -- D. H. Lawrence
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. -- Harvey Cushing
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. -- Stephen Fry
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. -- C. S. Lewis
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. -- Walt Whitman
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. -- Thomas Browne
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. -- Bruce Barton
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. -- Khaled Hosseini
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. -- Khaled Hosseini
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible. -- William Faulkner
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. -- Steven Pressfield
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans... -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. -- Pablo Casals
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. -- Rudolf Otto
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step... -- Winston Churchill
Splendid couple - slept with both of them. -- Maurice Bowra
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. -- Khaled Hosseini
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This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. -- Robert Mortimer
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful. -- Ian Mckellen
What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans. -- J. David Smith
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one."-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3) -- Julia Quinn
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
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and Ã©lan. Splendid. -- Stacy Schiff
Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people. -- Sue Johnson
Splendid,' AbbÃ© 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
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. -- Robertson Davies
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale -- John Phillips
You have splendid breasts, lass," he purred, cupping the plump mounds. "Splendid," he repeated stupidly, and she almost laughed. Men loved breasts any shape or form, they just loved them. -Drustan to Gwen -- Karen Marie Moning
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. -- Jerome K. Jerome
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
How many more people right now feel connected to Mumbai because of Slumdog Millionaire, or suddenly are interested in the plight of orphans on Mumbai after seeing that film? The same thing with the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. -- Khaled Hosseini
In 2004, I took a one year sabbatical to finish my second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns. At the end of that year, I was not done with my book, and had to in effect resign from work. I did. I never went back. -- Khaled Hosseini
I'm reading "The Sunset of a Splendid Century" by W.H. Lewis. He was C.S. Lewis's brother. He wrote two books about the French court of Louis XIV that are incredibly detailed. They are books that on every page you say, "Wow, think of that." -- Stephen Dobyns
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. -- John Cheever
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down. -- Manfred von Richthofen
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. -- Theodor Adorno
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -- Bruce Barton
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. -- James Buchan
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. -- John Maynard Keynes
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. -- James Henry Breasted
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. -- Arnold H. Glasow
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. -- Sara Teasdale
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. -- Edna Ferber
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. -- Origen
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. -- E. F. Schumacher
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people. -- Gretchen Rubin
Love is splendid light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian. -- Gene Weingarten
The shades of colours are splendid. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a spiritual splendid journey. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?.. -- Stephen Fry
Each day is filled with beautiful splendid. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! -- George Bernard Shaw
What a splendid head, yet no brain. -- Aesop
What a splendid time Woo must have had. -- Emily Carr
His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid. -- Bob Dylan
All seasons are beautifully filled with splendid wonders. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We have it in us to be splendid. -- Maya Angelou
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. -- Rudyard Kipling
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men. -- Cesar Romero
Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. -- Octave Mirbeau
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. -- Albert Camus
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendidâ??â?? boldly angelic. -- Aberjhani
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. -- James Cash Penney
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. -- Emily Carr
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. -- Plato
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up. -- Oprah Winfrey
... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate. -- Henry James
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. -- Elbert Hubbard
It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go. -- Sophie Scholl
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. -- Charles Spurgeon
No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. -- Winston Churchill
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. -- Gustave Flaubert
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. -- Doug Larson
Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness. -- Pablo Neruda
She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure. -- Steve Maraboli
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been. -- Sophocles
The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirer -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying. -- Samael Aun Weor
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. -- Giovanni Boccaccio
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. -- John Lothrop Motley
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. -- Edward Dunlop
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. -- C. S. Lewis
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. -- Georges Cuvier
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. -- Lord Chesterfield
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ... -- Mary Russell Mitford
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. -- Florence Nightingale
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. -- Phaedrus
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Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. -- Dale Carnegie
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. -- Virginia Woolf
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. -- Benjamin Disraeli
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. -- Rick Perlstein
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. -- Pope John XXIII
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. -- W. G. Grace
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. -- Victor Hugo
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. -- Thomas Jefferson
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! -- Henrik Ibsen
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. -- Reginald Horace Blyth

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