Top 38 Splendidly Quotes
#1. It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.
Christopher Morley
#2. You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
Aberjhani
#3. Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#4. The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#5. The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.
Ravi Zacharias
#6. [Johnny Depp] a wonderful artist, and such a talented person. I got along with him, splendidly. He's charming and wonderful to work with. He's a dream.
Amber Heard
#7. He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.
Larry McMurtry
#8. War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and that's all there is in it.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#9. That did not go well," LaValle said when Entreri had left. "It went splendidly!" Pook disagreed.
R.A. Salvatore
#10. New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always ... Yes, gay is the word ... but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York.
William Dean Howells
#11. He couldn't read any more of Velvette's stories. This was too intimate. She spills her soul by stitching words so splendidly, even ragged threads are imperceptible.
Anonymous
#12. How condescending, how splendidly democratic of Sir Lancelot, to laugh, as if he were an ordinary man! Perhaps he eats and drinks as well, or even sleeps at night.
T.H. White
#13. The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.
Fanny Kemble
#14. Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]
Sylvia Boorstein
#15. Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and - hey, presto! - once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.
Erich Von Daniken
#16. Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
Wilfrid Laurier
#17. Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers
Gregory Benford
#18. All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#19. Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.
Agatha Christie
#21. But speaking of Tennyson, have you read Maud?" "Once, long ago." "It's got some points about it." He quoted softly: "'Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
Agatha Christie
#22. Has she at least done it before?" said Kaz. "For this purpose?" asked Sturmhond. "I've seen her do it twice. It worked splendidly. Once".
Leigh Bardugo
#23. When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
Bill Cosby
#24. The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
John Maynard Keynes
#25. But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.
D.H. Lawrence
#26. Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?
Robertson Davies
#27. The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.
Richard Dawkins
#28. She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead
Henry James
#29. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#30. Ulver Seich woke up in the best possible way. She surfaced with a languorous slowness through fuzzy layers of luxurious half-dreams and memories of sweetness, sensuality and sheer carnal bliss ... to find it all merging rather splendidly into reality, and what was happening right now.
Iain M. Banks
#31. Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
D.W. Griffith
#32. I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.
Roma Downey
#33. Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Mark Twain
#34. A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
George Meredith
#35. I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!
Helen Keller
#36. Love and lust are as different from each other as red wine and blue cheese, but because they can also complement one another splendidly, they get conflated with amazing, dumbfounding regularity.
Christopher Ryan
#37. Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?
Victor Hugo
#38. A wonderful relationship can thrive and grow splendidly, when love is deeply rooted in your heart.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
