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Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. — Michel De Montaigne

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. — Dusty Springfield

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. — John Dominic Crossan

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous. — Boy George

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. — Marya Mannes

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio. — Christopher Bram

What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous. — Orhan Pamuk

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. — Anonymous

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. — Edward Young

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer. — John Burnside

Marvellous mercies and infinite love. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it. — Albert Einstein

Moll is immoral, shallow, hypocritical, heartless, a bad woman: yet Moll is marvellous. — Glen Duncan

What a marvellous invention man is! He can blow on his hands to warm them up, and blow on his soup to cool it down. — Georges Perec

...weaving his verbal wreaths, in prose and verse, of marvellous poison ivy. — Gore Vidal

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! — Peter Cundall

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. — Frederic Chopin

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness. — E. M. Forster

* Get one of those marvellous pink rabbit hand blenders. Like the ones I've seen on the late-night shopping channel. — Bridget Golightly

Family strength is a marvellous thing. — Agatha Christie

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? — Jules Verne

This state of equilibrium is only attractive when we walk a tightrope; sitting on the ground there is nothing marvellous about it." 12 — Bjorn N. Sandaker

Marvellous happy it was to be
Alone, and yet not solitary.
O out of terror and dark, to come
In sight of home. — Walter De La Mare

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now ... — John Lydon

Don't I look after you when you're ill?' 'You do. You're marvellous to me when I'm ill. It's when I'm well that you're no use. — Howard Jacobson

The unknown always passes for the marvellous. — Tacitus

Science is marvellous, it never rests and never accepts any simple answer at face value. — Doug L. Hoffman

Nobody can beat the Marvellous one! — Marc Mero

God has called us out of darkness into His marvellous light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face. — William Shakespeare

These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier . — Max Robertson

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything. — David Hockney

It was a lovely church - one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous party. — Eva Ibbotson

I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you! — Georgette Heyer

A truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something was broken. — Terry Pratchett

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart — Oscar Wilde

There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest. — Anton Chekhov

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous. — Paz Vega

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life. — Olivia Newton-John

Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. — Arthur Hugh Clough

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart. — Antonio Machado

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. — Maria Montessori

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. — Michel De Montaigne

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler

Work is its own best earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. — Jean Ingelow

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. — E. M. Forster

The marvel of our Bible never shows more marvellous than at such times, when you see it in deed and in truth the Sword of the Spirit, and it cuts. — Amy Carmichael

Marvellous blossomed, having quite forgotten what an exciting and necessary jolt being needed gave. — Sarah Winman

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13 — L. Frank Baum

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise. — John Brunner

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion? — Kate Griffin

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous. — Paul Merton

THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT IT'S painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts. — Ernest Hemingway,

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is. — Diana Athill

The mighty miracles of the Lord are marvellous! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I need your help," the boy said, "to save the world. — Karen Foxlee

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others! — Pope Francis

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? — Jonathan Stroud

The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful — Ruud Van Nistelrooy

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. — Robert Smith

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. — Paul Twitchell

Do try to be more cheerful and take life as you find it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 135 chapter 18 — L. Frank Baum

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. — Dinah Sheridan

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world. — Anthony Trollope

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. — Stieg Larsson

What I corrupted is what is called the truth in favour of a more marvellous world. — Anais Nin

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous. — Edward Burnett Tylor

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. — Angela Carter