Top Splendid Quotes
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
Lytton Strachey
There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.
John Buford
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley
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Denis Waitley 
Winston Churchill 
John Cheever 
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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
Noel Coward 
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The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
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I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott
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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
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
James Cash Penney
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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