#splendid

No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself. John wasn't unaware that he was about to pull one of the greatest about-faces in history. He could only hope that Belle would understand that he had realized she'd had been right all along. People made mistakes, didn't they? After all, he wasn't some infallible storybook hero. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#splendid #marriage

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#ashes #grave #man #noble #pompous

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #comment #expression #i #i am

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

#i #kept #long #more #opinion

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#capacity #educational #himself #his #less

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

I like to be surrounded by splendid things. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#like #splendid #surrounded #things

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#civilized #genius #great #hold #most

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #just #name #obviously #queen