- Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires,
- Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
LORD BYRON, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER, Table Talk
- Like madness is the glory of this life
- As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, The Life of Timon of Athens
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
THOMAS À KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
THOMAS MOORE, Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
- For the glory born of Goodness
- Never dies,
- And its flag is not half-masted
- In the skies.
BRET HARTE, "The Queen's Death"
There are two things which ought to teach us to think meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
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