Famous quotes containing the word grandeur:
“From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God!””
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)