Lovely Things Quotes

• The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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• That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

  Robert Walser

  Lovely

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

  Conrad Aiken

  Lovely, Pennies, Youth

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Loveliest of lovely things are they,
  On earth, that soonest pass away.
  The rose that lives its little hour
  Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Love, Life, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Scene At The Banks Of The Hudson”

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Nature, Flower, Rose

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

  Sara Teasdale

  Lovely, Looks

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The day will bring some lovely thing.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Lovely

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• What lovely things Thy hand hath made.

  Walter de La Mare

  Hands, Lovely, Made

  Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.

  James Purefoy

  Lovely, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• Death devours all lovely things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lovely

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

  Judith Schaechter

  Cutting, Glasses, Seductive

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• All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Clouds, Light

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.279, Discovery House

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• There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Mean, Past

  "The Problem is Civil Obedience". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. 1970.

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wisdom, Rocks, Giving

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1838). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.9

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• One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

  Camille Pissarro

  Beautiful, Lovely, Littles

  In a letter to his son Lucien, 26 July 1892, as quoted in "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 146, 1963.

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• Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

  Bob Marley

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• Paolo Uccello's wife told people that Paolo used to stay up all night in his study trying to work out the vanishing points of his perspective. When she called him to come to bed, he would say "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!"

  Giorgio Vasari

  Night, Work Out, Wife

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• Also to get to see over the course of time how they change, and how Andy [Hertzfeld], regardless of how he's treated, still maintains a friendship with Steve [Jobs] over the course of time. Enough to want to show up and cheer him on. It says a lot about his character, and also that he cares about Steve. Yeah, I find it moving, and I find it a lovely thing on Andy's part.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Jobs, Cheer, Moving

  Source: nerdist.com

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• Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

  Shauna Niequist

  Dream, Opportunity, Hands

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• The fact that the commercial success of my books has allowed me to buy a house for myself and my daughter I think is a lovely thing. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Book, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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