Pomp Quotes
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Pomp Quotes & Sayings
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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. — Marcus Aurelius
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
— William Hazlitt
For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How
— Amor Towles
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must. — William Shakespeare
Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.
— Robin Bertram
There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
— William Blake
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
— Henry Fuseli
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
— China Mieville
All the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
— James Henry Gooding
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
— Edward Everett
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
All pomp and show." Anjali's glare at the house would've exploded bricks if she'd had superhuman powers. "A fat cow needs a big barn.
— Nicola Marsh
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
— William Shakespeare
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
— Isaac Newton
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
— Thomas Paine
There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide.— Nicholson Baker
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
— James A. Garfield
Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
— Keith O'Brien
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
— Agesilaus II
I've always loved the pomp and circumstance of dressing up; the pagenatry and all of the glamour of Hollywood.
— Halle Berry
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
— William Shakespeare
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight. — Alexander Pope
A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.
— Stephen King
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"
— John Greenleaf Whittier
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.
— Henry Van Dyke
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
— Phyllis McGinley
