Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
Robert Louis StevensonThe haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.
jean-baptiste sayThe Salmon is the most stately fish that any man may angle to in fresh water.
Dame Juliana or Juliana Barnes BernersThe stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand.
noël cowardI became one of the stately homos of England.
Quentin CrispFrom jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tents of war.
Christopher MarloweThe foundation of the government of a nation must be built upon the rights of the people, but the administration must be entrusted to experts.We must not look upon those experts as stately and grand presidents and ministers, but simply as our chauffeurs, guards at the gate, cooks, physicians, carpenters, or tailors.
SunYat-Sen or SunYixianThe stately ship is seen no more,The fragile skiff attains the shore;And while the great and wise decay,And all their trophies pass away,Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme,Still floats above the wrecks of Time.
william edward hartpole leckyGive 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 whittierHe was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.
john cheeverThe stately homes of England we proudly represent, We only keep them up for Americans to rent. Tho' the pipes that supply the bathroom burst And the lavat’ry makes you fear the worst It was used by Charles the First (quite informally), And later by George the Fourth on a journey north, The state apartments keep their historical reknown, It's wiser not to sleep there in case they tumble down; But still if they ever catch on fire Which with any luck they might, We'll fight for the stately homes of England.
noël cowardGaskell could not abide this indecorous version of his beloved linear progress theory. He could not bear to imagine that the grand procession from jellyfish to man, orchestrated by an ever-increasing mass of nervous tissue, once paused in its stately and orderly march toward human consciousness in order to execute a fancy little flip, a clever jig of inversion, just at the sublime and definitive moment of entrance into the vertebral home stretch.
stephen jay gouldIn the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace Radiant palace reared its head.
edgar allan poeBut delightful though it is to indulge in righteous indignation, it is misplaced if we agree with the lady's-maid that high birth is a form of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely inherits the diseases of his ancestors, and endures them, for the most part very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
virginia woolfSome distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
gao xingjianThe stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land.
felicia hemansAround in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.
Dutch tulips from their beds Flaunted their stately heads.
james montgomeryThere is something anachronistic about the very idea of aphorisms or maxims. Contemporary culture isn’t stately enough, or stable enough, to support them.
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 whittierstately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.
joyce grenfellstately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea.
bayard taylorstately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.