“Glorious the sun in mid career; Glorious th' assembled fires appear; Glorious the comet's train.”— Christopher Smart
“The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.”— Danny Blanchflower
“The greatest dangers have their charms, because there is some glory to be got, even when we miscarry.”— Cardinal de Retz
“And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.”— Henry Vaughan
“A man ought to have the ambition of Zhang Qian and Fu Jiezi, to win glory in foreign lands and earn a marquisate.”— Ban Chao
“Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.”— Jeremy Taylor
“Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.”— Charles Wolfe
“The man of science himself is fonder of glory, and vain of popular applause, than the ignorant herdboy.”— Robert Bloomfield