Splendid Quotes - Page 13

• We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

  Sófocles

  Time, Memories, Waiting

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• Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

  Alice Munro

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Wish

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.248, Vintage

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• ... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

  Henry James

  Might, Immaculate

  Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.53, e-artnow

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• Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Strong, Comfort, Spirit

  Thomas Wolfe (2011). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Se había retirado únicamente para su placer personal, sólo para estar cerca de sí mismo. Ya no se distraía con nada externo, disfrutaba de su propia existencia y la encontraba espléndida.

  Patrick Süskind

  Pleasure, Found, Existence

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• I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Deception, Example

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Es algo espléndido pensar que la mujer a la que realmente amas nunca envejecerá para ti. A través de las arrugas del tiempo, a través de la máscara de los años, si la amas de verdad, siempre verás el rostro que amas y que ganaste. Y una mujer que ama de verdad a un hombre no ve que envejece; no es decrépito para ella; siempre ve al mismo caballero galante que ganó su mano y su corazón.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Corazón, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). "The works of Robert G. Ingersoll", p.209, Biblioteca de Alejandría

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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

  Sometimes, Wells, Frightening

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.58, Macmillan

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• ¿Dijiste que las estrellas eran mundos, Tess?" "Sí." "¿Todos como el nuestro?" "No lo sé, pero creo que sí. A veces parecen como las manzanas de nuestro árbol. La mayoría espléndidas y sanas, unas pocas marchitas". "¿De cuál vivimos, de una espléndida o de una marchita?" "De las arruinadas.

  Thomas Hardy

  Estrellas, Pensamiento, Manzanas

  Thomas Hardy (2016). "Tess of the d'Ubervilles", p.30, Xist Publishing.

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• ...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

  Ignorance, Moral, Equipment

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.21, Vintage

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• And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Heart, Sight

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• Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Men, Needs

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• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Doubt, World

  "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Los honores hereditarios son un noble y espléndido tesoro para los descendientes.

  Plato

  Plato, Honor, Noble

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• So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Death, Taken, Heart

  'Margaritae Sororis' (1888)

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• It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, People, World

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• 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

  Book, Penguins, Publishers

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). "The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: Una época como ésta, 1920-1940", Harvill Secker

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• Un caballo que se detiene justo antes de un salto y propulsa así a su jinete en un elegante arco constituye una espléndida excusa para la algarabía general.

  Prince Philip

  Horse, Equestrian, Excuse

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• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Women, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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• Cada pequeña cosa que hacemos pasa a la gran máquina de la vida, que puede triturar nuestras virtudes y hacerlas inútiles, o transformar nuestros pecados en elementos de una nueva civilización, más maravillosa y más espléndida que todas las anteriores.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fashion, Hero, Sacrifice

  William Ralph Inge (1920). "Outspoken Essays"

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• ¡Espléndidas! Solían elevarse como grandes lirios, bocas de dragón y labiérnagos de fuego y colgaban en el crepúsculo toda la tarde.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Twilight, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

  George Mikes

  Hangover, Wine, Night

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• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Accomplishment, Rambling

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ambition, Judgement, Energy

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