Brilliant Quotes

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. (Pablo Picasso)
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. View quote
Winston Churchill
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best. View quote
E. F. Benson
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies? View quote
Kathy Reichs
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. (Cicero)
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. View quote
John Singer Sargent
I was familiar with that and "Rio Bravo.” "Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. View quote
John Leguizamo
I love London society I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? View quote
Marianne Williamson
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. View quote
William Cowper
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second. (Stacy Schiff)
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. View quote
Steven Johnson
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is-and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. View quote
Harlan Coben
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. View quote
David Ginola