splendid quotes

The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  The Deserted Village, l.266^8.

Oh, she's a splendid girl.Wonderfully pneumatic.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Brave New World, ch.3.

O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza 9.