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"Glorification" Quotes from Famous Books

... to show to you Madame Courtelyou's portrait of myself? It is called 'The Glorification of Imbecility,'" he said as he ...

— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... this first fault, this first fall, she glorified adultery, she sang the song of adultery, its poesy and its delights. This, gentlemen, to me is much more dangerous and immoral than the fall itself! Gentlemen, all pales before this glorification of adultery, even the rendezvous at ...

— The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert • Various

... sent her early to bed. Beneath her pillow lay a scrap of paper with a name and address she was not likely to forget. And through the night of broken slumbers Rose suffered a martyrdom. No more self-glorification! All her courage gone, all her new vitality! She saw herself with the old eyes, and was ...

— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing

... their Philistine luxury and fatuous ideals, which have been so depressing and distressing a feature of our social life during the same period. Naturally, the desire of these classes has been for the glorification of Germany, the establishment of an absolutely world-wide commercial supremacy, and the ousting ...

— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter

... reject the feeding of the multitude. To some the walking on the water will be a legendary exaggeration of a swim, ending in an ordinary rescue of Peter; and the raising of Lazarus will be only a similar glorification of a commonplace feat of artificial respiration, whilst others will scoff at it as a planned imposture in which Lazarus acted as a confederate. Between the rejection of the stories as wholly fabulous and ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

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