GLORY

Related Subjects: Ambition, Beauty, Conquerors, Fame, Hero, Honor, Light, Martyrdom

1. And glory long. has made the sages smile,
   'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind—
   Depending more upon the historian's style
   Than on the name a person leaves behind.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.—MARTIAL
   

3. But the desire for glory has great power in washing the tincture
   of philosophy out of the souls of men.—PLUTARCH
   

4. The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need at all of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way of action by the greater trust that it procures him.—PLUTARCH
   

5. Sudden glory soon goes out.—Proverb
   

6. Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off.—Proverb
   

7. Glory is like a circle in the water,
   Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
   Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

8. I see thy glory like a shooting star
   Fall to the base earth from the firmament.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

9. The glories of our blood and state
   Are shadows, not substantial things;
   There is no armour against fate;
   Death lays his icy hand on kings.—JAMES SHIRLEY, Contention of Ajax & Ulysses

10. Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,—nothing so expensive as glory.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir
    

11. Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Spectator
    

12. His food
    Was glory, which was poison to his mind
    And peril to his body.—SIR HENRY TAYLOR, Philip Van Artevelde
    

13. Where is it now, the glory and the dream?—WORDSWORTH, Ode On Intimations of Immortality