Lovely Quotes - Page 10

• The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

  Louise Bogan

  Reality, Poetry, World

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

  Ruth Gordon

  Retirement, Long, People

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Flower, Years, Ivory

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Order, Together, Hobbies

  "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People". Book by Amy Sedaris, November 2, 2010.

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• Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

  Belva Plain

  Flower, Wine, Europe

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.563, Dell

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• I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

  Tony Benn

  Children, Thinking, People

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• You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

  Jennifer Niven

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.300, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Heart, Feet, Pieces

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Live Life, Home, Heart

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• But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Compassion, Degrading

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• But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Thinking, Two

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• If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

  Philip Gambone

  Smart, Taught Us, Messages

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• Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.

  Robert E. Murray

  Jesus, Looks, Christ

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• As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.

  Brian Molko

  Beautiful, Morning, Party

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• The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Love Is, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
  All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Air, Water, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1995). “"God's Grandeur" and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Aunt, Garden, Thinking

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• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fashion, Hate, Home

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell
  emerges strange and lovely.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Body, Shells

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6885, Delphi Classics

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• Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

  Philip Sidney

  Beauty, Battle, Sweetness

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Twilight, Sleep, Night

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.205

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• O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Men, Voice, Might

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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