“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”
Edmund Burke
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“not from the sublime to the ridiculous -- from the very ridiculous to simply the ridiculous.”
George Gekas
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
William Blake
“As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?”
Lord Byron
