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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You know, when you've worked with somebody before and you've worked very deeply and dangerously then you start with the relaxation and the trust right away and that lets you go even deeper, which is a lovely thing.

  Kathleen Turner

  Lovely, Relaxation, Letting You Go

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.

  Julia Sawalha

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Feel Good

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• Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sweet, Children, Book

  Introduction to "The Lost Princess of Oz", 1917.

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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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• 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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• Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.

  N. T. Wright

  Thinking, People, Leader

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

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• You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.

  Will Ferrell

  Cheer, Love You, Bad Day

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