Glittering Quotes

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. - Thomas Carlyle

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. - Mark Twain

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. - William Wordsworth

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party! - Christine Anderson

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. - F. E. Smith

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. - Bible

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. - David Lloyd George

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. - Bible

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath. - Louis Auchincloss