Lovely Quotes - Page 28

• If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Evil, Juice

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Answers, Serious

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• Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.

  Marissa Meyer

  Fall, Holiday, Moon

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• Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Today, Hello

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.52, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

  Liane Moriarty

  Years, Tupperware, Language

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• Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grandmother, Dating, Racist

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Thinking, Creating

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.516, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

  Ann Aguirre

  Beautiful, Moving, Numbness

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• You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

  James M. Barrie

  Thinking, Air, Wonderful

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.27, 谷月社

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• She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Perfect, Path, Waking

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.359, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

  Laini Taylor

  Fun, Smart, Book

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• 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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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Spring, Flower

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• In spring when maple buds are red,
  We turn the clock an hour ahead;
  Which means, each April that arrives,
  We lose an hour out of our lives.
  
  Who cares? When autumn birds in flocks
  Fly southward, back we turn the clocks,
  And so regain a lovely thing
  That missing hour we lost in spring.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Spring, Mean, Autumn

  Phyllis McGinley, “Daylight Savings Time”

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Sweet

  'Spring' (written 1877)

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