quotations about glory
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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The Biglow Papers
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CICERO
Tusculanarum Disputationum
There are two things which ought to teach us to think meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER
Table Talk
Glory is so enchanting, that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
The love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD
attributed, Day's Collacon
When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.
EDWARD YOUNG
"Resignation"
The way to prove superior to death is to die with glory.
AL-MUGHALLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Like madness is the glory of this life
As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Life of Timon of Athens
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER
The Iliad