A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
Those two are carved from the same tree. " the queen said. By the same blade. " The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity
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.
Splendid,' Abbé Patin said with a sheepish grin, pulling up alongside. 'There is nothing quite so thrilling as riding in fear of one's life.
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
. . . since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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.
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.