quotations about glory
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame.
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill.
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
But I probably will.
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of,
Well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Glory Days", Born in the U.S.A.
Glory is safe when it is deserved; it is not so with popularity; one lasts like a mosaic, the other is effaced like the crayon drawing.
STANISLAS DE BOUFFLERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
BRUCE LEE
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part I
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
The fear of Jehovah is a training in wisdom, and before glory there is humility.
SOLOMON
Proverbs 15:33
To be used as an instrument of God's glory should be our highest joy.
OLIVER CROMWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER
Table Talk
Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?
RICK RIORDAN
The Lightning Thief
Glory is the sun of the dead.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Recherche de l'Absolu
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Biglow Papers
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
HOMER
Iliad
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
JAMES THOMSON
Sophonisba
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to perserve the virtue by which it was acquired.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, September 17, 1711
When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.
EDWARD YOUNG
"Resignation"
Glory is the casual gift of thoughtless crowds.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
PLINY THE ELDER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers