Brilliant

Famous quotes containing the word brilliant:

    The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)