Quotes of: Sublimity Keyword

Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.

Scott Hastie

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Pope John Paul II

I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

Patrick Demarchelier

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Norman Douglas

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Erik Satie

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

House of Leaves

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

Rudolf Steiner

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

James K. Polk

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Frederick Soddy

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

E. M. Forster

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Justin Taylor

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Feeling grateful is good; showing appreciation to those you feel grateful to is sublime.

Andy Lacroix

Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, lit...

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

If i had to petname my love, i would have crooned ''SUBLIME'' since the day i got my tounge...MB

margish v

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac