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Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be. — Euripides

In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy. — Zoe Heller

What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur. — Ayn Rand

We were all in it together, of course, desperate to regain some hypothetical upper hand by any means necessary. — Peter Watts

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose. — William P. Young

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ... making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur. — El-P

Guys as a gender have one giant collective delusion of grandeur. — Aisha Tyler

Let the mind be enlarged ... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon

The true path of life leads through the narrow valley of grandeur. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit
the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco

Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety. — Bryant McGill

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel."
"Awesome."
"Maybe, but it's code's all it is. — Thomas Pynchon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. — Charles Spurgeon

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. — Thomas Hardy

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. — Abdal Hakim Murad

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. — Jane Wagner

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history. — Douglas MacArthur

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur. — Peter David

Linear time has one claim to grandeur: it is the tragic aspect of Time — Alan McGlashan

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys. — Clifford Whittingham Beers

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence. — Jean De La Bruyere

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God! — John Muir

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. — Bryant H. McGill

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them. — Lady Gregory

Humility is essential greatness, the inside of grandeur. — George MacDonald

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. — Henry Fuseli

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt

The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead. — John Keats

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man. — Craig Stone

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought. — Francois Mauriac

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

It rolls in grandeur lone
The stream of Time;
And on its shores lie strown
The wrecks of every clime. — Harvey Rice

The strong experience of nature ... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. — Paul Cezanne

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you — Ginnetta Correli

From within that chipped gilt frame all the beauty, all the grandeur of religion looked darkly out upon the pink room. — Aldous Huxley

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid. — Jimmy Kimmel

The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved. — Rumi

Nothing takes the romance and grandeur out of life than scrubbing stains out of sheets. — Susan Ee

... the natural course from nullity to grandeur is to forget that you are a gramme and to feel that you are a millionth part of a ton. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

There was one man stood above the rest, surrounded and engulfed within his own delusions of grandeur.
As there always seems to be. — Ross Turner

Negotiations with religious fanatics who have delusions of grandeur generally do not go well. — Peter L. Bergen

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. — Louis Pasteur

When we have experienced but a taste of His grandeur and glory, the only legitimate response is abandoned worship. — Anna Blanc

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness. — Edwin Louis Cole

Sublime wonders lie in store,
I am shown a regal residence;
a mighty kingdom, an empire
with more grandeur than before ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur. — W. Somerset Maugham

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. — Heinrich Heine

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur. — James Ellis

The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also ... its problem. — Umberto Eco

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . he will be surrounded by grandeur. — Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur. — Madame De Stael

The grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things — Paulo Coelho

The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance. — Steve Maraboli

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere. — Honore De Balzac

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet. — Nell Zink

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad. — Charles Lamb

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. — Michel De Montaigne

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death. — Heinrich Heine

We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur. — Khushwant Singh

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion ... — Albert Einstein

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. — Barbara Tuchman

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy. — Tony Snow

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. — Stevie Smith

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you. — Calvin Miller

The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur. — Elizabeth Peters

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap. — David Pietrusza

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. — Charles Sumner

It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people. — Florence Welch

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur. — Peter Clines

The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided. — Charles De Gaulle

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth. — Mason Cooley

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy

She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman. — Robert Galbraith

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. — Michael P. Naughton

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. — Joseph C Zinker

What I lack in skill and motivation I make up for in delusions of grandeur. — Mira Gonzalez

She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur. — Stephen King

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One — Howard Thurman

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. — Samuel Johnson

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. — A.J.P. Taylor

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily. — Rick Mercer

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