quotations about glory
When human glory rises high
As human glory can;
When though the king is truly great,
Still greater is the man.
EDWARD YOUNG
"Resignation"
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER
Table Talk
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
Prefer glory that will last forever, rather than that which lasts but a day.
POMPEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
When a man measures out glory for himself he always heaps the half bushel.
H. W. SHAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Though men may impose upon themselves what they please by their corrupt imaginations, truth will ever keep its station; and as glory is nothing else but the shadow of virtue, it will certainly disappear at the departure of virtue.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator, August 9, 1711
Glory is the sun of the dead.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Recherche de l'Absolu
What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
The way to prove superior to death is to die with glory.
AL-MUGHALLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
HOMER
The Iliad