#splendid

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#cold #dawn #evening #flowers #frivolity

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#could #economists #get #humble #level

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#anything #blood #cold #created #ever

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#handsome #men #most #only #robert

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

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#border #country #love #should #splendid

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

— Winston Churchill

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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

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