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

  James Purefoy

  Lovely, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Death devours all lovely things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lovely

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

  Groucho Marx

  House, Lovely, Underestimate

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.198, Da Capo Press

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Lovely, Awful

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

  Sara Teasdale

  Kings, Memories, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”

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• What a lovely thing a rose is!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rose, Lovely

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.419, Wordsworth Editions

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• They are a great essay in male friendship, which has gone now. Men's friendship has been debased. One of the lovely things about Holmes and Watson is that they do have this great platonic relationship.

  Jeremy Brett

  Men, Lovely, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

  Christian Dior

  Women, Flower, Lovely

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• The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.

  Molly Crabapple

  People, Lovely, Buchenwald

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

  Richard Bach

  Sweet Love, Humble, Lovely

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.187, Dell

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• Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

  Alexander the Great

  Leaving, Risk, Lovely

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• I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mean, Giving, Worry

  "Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe reveals he has given up drinking after long battle with alcohol" by Ben Todd, www.dailymail.co.uk. July 5, 2011.

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• You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

  Oscar Wilde

  Night, Thinking, Ideas

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• Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination powerless. Ah, if only that were the case on the outside. But enough chitchat. If you're going to die--which you are--I'm sure you'd like to get it over with." --The Looking Glass Wars

  Frank Beddor

  War, Glasses, Imagination

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