“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.”
Lily Tomlin
“An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”
Derek Walcott
“The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man”
Charles Sumner
“There are minds which easily sink into submission, that look on grandeur with undistinguishing reverence, and discover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches”
Samuel Johnson
“So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, / Thou must / The youth replies, / I can”
Ralph Waldo Emerson