Top 34 Lordly Quotes
#1. Jamadars and bheesties,' said the helmsman. 'Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.' 'Twisted firestarters?' enquired the detective. 'I told you not to mention them.
Robert Rankin
#2. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more
Edgar Allan Poe
#3. Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
Francois Rabelais
#4. Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#5. Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.
Elizabeth Bowen
#7. If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
Mark Twain
#8. Again with that slow, lordly smile. Perfectly shaped for Luc's fist.
Page Morgan
#9. Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#10. There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#11. I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#12. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
#13. The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.
Rumi
#14. I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.
Pat Conroy
#16. Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old ... But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death.'
'So be it,' said Faramir.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#17. God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus
#18. There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
Bram Stoker
#19. Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#20. Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
Pindar
#21. When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
Aristotle.
#22. Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
Henry L. Stimson
#23. Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah
Nicki Minaj
#24. But I happen to think there's something seductive about the dark.
Lauren Hammond
#25. Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.
Joseph Story
#26. It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.
David Wroblewski
#27. A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
Astro Teller
#28. I'd yearned for many of the things that come only with a partner. Shared roots, love, an ineffable sense of belonging.
Audrey Faye
#29. The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
Gabby Douglas
#30. I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.
Gerald Stern
#31. I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#32. What chaos is left in modern society is a precious commodity.
Tom DeMarco
#33. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
Betty Smith
#34. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.
Robert Bausch
