Stately Quotes
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Stately Quotes & Sayings
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Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
— Joyce Grenfell
Then, with a stately leap, the sun bounded into the sky, and the whole, messy, beautiful, broken world was stained with fire.
— Kate Constable
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you would grow great and stately,You must try to walk sedately. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
— Felicia Hemans
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
— Joseph Heller
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
— Bill Veeck
So die as though your funeralUshered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted. — Alan Seeger
I am the last of Britain's stately homos.
— Quentin Crisp
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,To follow rule and climb the stately chair. — George Peele
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande
— Nathaniel Dorsky
Above,the fair hall-ceiling stately set Many an arch high up did lift,And angels rising and descending met With interchange of gift.
— Alfred Tennyson
I lie there in the magic grove, being hummed at by trees with ancient memories, lulled by their stately breath, held in the embrace of their roots.
— Nayomi Munaweera
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
— Samuel Johnson
![Stately Quotes By William Wordsworth: [ ... ]the stately and slow-moving Turk,With freight](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/stately-quotes-by-william-wordsworth-1913144.jpg "Stately Quotes By William Wordsworth: [ ... ]the stately and slow-moving Turk,With freight")
[ ... ]the stately and slow-moving Turk,With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm. — William Wordsworth
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
— Richard Sibbes
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.
— Julia Caroline Dorr
![Stately Quotes By Steven W. Horn: It [government] was a cancerous mass of bureaucracy](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/stately-quotes-by-steven-w-horn-2185253.jpg "Stately Quotes By Steven W. Horn: It [government] was a cancerous mass of bureaucracy")
It [government] was a cancerous mass of bureaucracy that thrived just below the surface of stately marble buildings.
— Steven W. Horn
I became one of the stately homos of England.
— Quentin Crisp
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.
— Edgar Allan Poe
silver-haired, stately - he is everyone's father; he is
— Jodi Picoult
Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.
— Anthony Trollope
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
— M. E. W. Sherwood
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
— Michael Dirda
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
With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.
— Kit Harington
I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia's stately domus and finding I was beautiful.
— Amy Rachel Peterson
The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.
— David Macbeth Moir
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter's Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
— Katharine Weber
