Lovely Quotes - Page 30

• Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

  Edmund Waller

  Sweet, Time, Rose

  "Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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• What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Children, Grandmother

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• I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

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• How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

  Mark Twain

  Death

  Janet Smith, Mark Twain (1972). “Mark Twain on man and beast”, Lawrence Hill Books

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• Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Equality, Liberty, Sacred

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Ideas, Sublime

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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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• Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
  Friendship is a sheltering tree;
  Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
  Of friendship, love, and liberty,
  Ere I was old!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Flower, Love Is

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2012). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Bleak House”, p.150

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• Oh! lovely voices of the sky
  Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
  Are ye not singing still on high,
  Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

  Felicia Hemans

  Christmas, Lovely Voice, Sky

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1836). “The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume”, p.282

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was!

  Leo Robin

  Memories, Lingerie, Lace

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• How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

  Thomas Cole

  Stars, Twilight, Night

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• The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

  Leigh Hunt

  Two, World, Spots

  'The Story of Rimini' (1816) canto 3, l. 257

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• It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

  Robertson Davies

  Children, Memories, Lost Love

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

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• Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Looks, Stories, Afar

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• All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

  Kenneth Williams

  Men, Islands, Analysis

  "Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wise, Broken, Giving

  Sara Teasdale, “Lovely Chance”

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• Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere-She whose beauty was more than human?-But where are the snows of yester-year?

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Men, Echoes, Years

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2002). “Selected Poems and Translations”, p.144, Psychology Press

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• Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

  John of the Cross

  Night, Dawn, Lovers

  Saint John Of The Cross (2016). “Dark night of the soul”, p.14, Saint John Of The Cross

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• I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .

  Stephen Spender

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely feeling of security.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Australia, Giving, Feelings

  1987 The Songlines, ch.10.

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• My music is not lovely.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Music Is

  "Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius". Book by Detlev Claussen, Harvard University Press, p. 387, "Art and the Arts", 2009.

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• I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

  Virgil Thomson

  Discipline, Asking, Littles

  Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

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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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