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Glory: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath— WORDSWORTH — These Times Strike
Monied Worldlings.
So may a glory from defect arise.— ROBERT BROWNING — Deaf and Dumb.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.— BRYDGES — On the Death of
Sir Walter Scott. Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.— BYRON — Monody on the Death of the
Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan. *** glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.— COWPER — Table Talk. L. 1.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.— GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 9.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!— GRAY — The Bard. III. I. L. 107.
The first in glory, as the first in place.— S. HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 441. Pope's trans.
Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!— ROUGET DE L'ISLE — The Marseilles
Hymn. 1792. A translation. The glory of Him who Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.— LONGFELLOW — The Children of the Lord's Supper. L. 177.
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.— LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. II
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.— THEODORE O'HARA — The Bivouac of the Dead. St. 1.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.— POPE — Second Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 300.
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.— RICHARD SAVAGE — Character of Foster.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.— SCOTT — Old Mortality. Ch. XXXIV.
Introductory Stanza. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. C.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 133.
I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 358.
Like madness is the glory of this life.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 139.
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force, Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it finds a joy above the rest.— Shakespeare — Sonnet XCI.
When the moon shone, we did not see the candle; So doth the greater glory dim the less.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 92.
Who would be so mock'd with glory?— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 33.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory.— SYDNEY SMITH — Lady Holland's . Memoir. Vol. I. P. 86.
'Twas glory once to be a Roman; She makes it glory, now, to be a man.— BAYARD TAYLOR — The National Ode.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither heat nor light.— JOHN WEBSTER — The White Devil. Act V. Sc. 1.
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!— WORDSWORTH — To B. B. Haydon. L. 14.
At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo. The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 149.
Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur. Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.— CICERO — Tusculanarum Disputationum.
γ. I. 45. Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru Non minus ignotos generosis. Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.— HORACE — Satiræ. I. 6. 23.
S. Cineri gloria sera est. Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.— MARTIAL — Epigrammata. I. 26. 8.
Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria. Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. III. 17. 12.
и. Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires. I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.— PROPERTIUS — Elegiæ. IV. 10. 3.
Heu, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est. Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory!— SYRUS — Maxims.
Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integræ ætatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum ævum peregit. As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory. C.— TACITUS- — Agricola. XLIV.
Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire. No flowery road leads to glory.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. X. 14.
La gloire n'est jamais où la vertu n'est pas. Glory is never where virtue is not.— LE FRANC — Didon.