Lovely Quotes - Page 9

• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
  To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Everlasting Love, Made

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, America, World

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

  Julia Child

  Smell, Should Have, Buying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Clouds

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• Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

  William Butler Yeats

  Miracle, Gone, Multitudes

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.

  Peter York

  Country, Ambition, Cutting

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• Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, People, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.38, Modern Library

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• If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Winning, Thinking, World

  John Dryden (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...”, p.219

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• Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Nice, Loneliness, Home

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Perfect, Perfection, Lovely Woman

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• Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

  Jean Ingelow

  Ocean, Land, Dawn

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Poems”, p.300

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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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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

  Winston Churchill

  Fun, Looks, Matching

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

  Saadi

  Heart, Keys, Faces

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• The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Character, Sea

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caribbean: A Novel”, p.24, Dial Press

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• What change has made the pastures sweet
  And reached the daisies at my feet,
  And cloud that wears a golden hem?
  This lovely world, the hills, the sward--
  They all look fresh, as if our Lord
  But yesterday had finished them.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Spring, Past

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.39

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• Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program-they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Angel, Son, Boys

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• There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Food, Men, Thinking

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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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• She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Tears, May

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• 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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• A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

  Marguerite Duras

  War, Women, Rain

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• If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

  Winifred Holtby

  Flower, Book, Car

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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