Lovely Quotes - Page 24

• We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Car, House, Reasonable

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Birthday, Time

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

  Susannah York

  Relationship, Thinking, Interest

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• A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

  Loretta Young

  Stars, Fall, Faces

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

  Romola Garai

  Vintage, Underwear, Heavy

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• She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Laughter, Moving

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• ...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hands, Romance, Together

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.602, Delphi Classics

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• Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Boys, Land

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Jun 27, 2014

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• So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

  John Steinbeck

  World, Want, Dare

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.85, Penguin

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• Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?

  Susan Fletcher

  Love Is, Sight, Brain

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• They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

  Toni Morrison

  Light, Hands, Weight

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.16, Random House

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• A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

  Toni Morrison

  Sunshine, Orange Trees, Sky

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

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• If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

  James M. Barrie

  Eye, Fire, Darkness

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Men, People

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• She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Witches”, p.11, Penguin

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• But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ambition, Garden, Naps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Art, Littles, Little Women

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• Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Height

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.48, Ageless Reads

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• I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

  H. L. Mencken

  Depressing, Artist, Careers

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• But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

  John Steinbeck

  Unique, Eden, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

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• The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

  Nora Roberts

  Romance, Tears, Tunes

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy”, p.19, Penguin

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• Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

  Nelson Algren

  Real, Broken, Chicago

  Nelson Algren (1983). “Chicago, city on the make”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Grief, Taken

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• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

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• You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

  J. K. Rowling

  Jail, People, Trying

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