#grandeur

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#beer #grandeur #great #great men #in my opinion

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#alliance #divine #does #endurance #grandeur

The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. ↗

— John Corry

#conventional #delicate #flying #glass #gothic

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ↗

— Jean Genet

#darkness #dream #dreaming #grandeur #long

struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the huge piece of frozen time, the glacier, trapped in a solid state for centuries, melting into the ocean and becoming one with its future. She feels small and insignificant in the face of such a display of nature. ↗

— Garth Stein

#nature-s-grandeur #time #nature

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. ↗

— Mary Astell

#good #grandeur #great #makes #sets

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. ↗

— Jacques Bossuet

#grandeur #great #great souls #know #only

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv