Top 100 Quotes About Lovely Things
#1. In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?'
'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope.
George MacDonald
#2. We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
Dante Alighieri
#3. You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
Oscar Wilde
#4. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
Saint Augustine
#5. One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.
Camille Pissarro
#6. ... got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.
Toni Cade Bambara
#7. As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary; a wild flower by the wayside, tended corn, wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only.
John Ruskin
#8. The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
Jenny Holzer
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#12. Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.
James Elkins
#13. You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can't always give you what you want.
Jenny Downham
#14. Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
Yaya Toure
#15. A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.
Arthur Golden
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. - Then ... it was like ... I don't even know how to describe it. Color and light and music and life and joy and love ... so many wonderful things, all the lovely things that make up the world and make it worth living.
Richelle Mead
#19. It is nothing to say lovely things to someone who expects them, needs them. The beauty is when one who does not expect them comes to believe them - that only happens when the compliments and the love behind them are sincere.
Katherine Reay
#20. Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.
Shauna Niequist
#21. Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#22. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
Judith Schaechter
#23. Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,
As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
Edgar Allan Poe
#24. I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.
Helen Keller
#25. there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
#26. My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.
Rebecca Ferguson
#27. Lovely things surround us every day, waiting to be picked up and noticed. Waiting to be turned in your hands, heart, and mind. Notice them. Share them. Hold them in your heart and feed your soul with them. ~ The Mapmaker
Dawn M. Hafner
#28. 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
#29. Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude ...
William Butler Yeats
#30. The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
#31. One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
Paula Hawkins
#33. Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#35. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.
Anita Higman
#36. I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
Kate Winslet
#37. 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
#39. There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
Bat For Lashes
#40. He made you believe you'd have lovely things and live kinkily ever after, didn't he?
Kitty Thomas
#41. The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.
Ariana Franklin
#42. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...
Barbara Elsborg
#43. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
#44. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#45. We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.
Mary Balogh
#47. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Oscar Wilde
#49. You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
Lucretius
#50. I happen to have a certain fondness for existing
soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex ... well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.
Jhonen Vasquez
#51. Most of things in life are two way, like sometimes, there are tears of happiness too.
Lovely Goyal
#52. In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
Madhuri Dixit
#53. The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.
Paul Washer
#54. The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.
Elizabeth McCracken
#55. How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. 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
#57. Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
D.H. Lawrence
#58. It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.
William Maxwell
#59. In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. Those were lovely days for gastronomy, I must say.
Julia Child
#60. Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. PHIL. 4:8.
Joseph Murphy
#61. Whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
Barbara Kingsolver
#62. Things we say in one line generally can't be explained by us even in hundreds.
Lovely Goyal
#63. Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#64. Come! Come sit by me. It's a nice bench. Nice and lovely on the butt."
"You're drunk."
"Yeah, and you're ugly, but do I complain about it? No! Because I don't complain about things that I can't change. That's called intelligence.
Sara Wolf
#65. If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#66. American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.
Liane Moriarty
#67. The two divinest things the world has got - A lovely woman and a rural spot.
John Keats
#68. The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.
Azhar Ali
#69. Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C.S. Lewis
#70. My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.
Arundhati Roy
#71. I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.
Kyle MacLachlan
#72. My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.
Bo Burnham
#73. Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. Being thankful to the road not taken, ... because only right things at right time give uh pleasure and success.
Lovely Goyal
#75. She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
Catherynne M Valente
#76. In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
Pindar
#77. I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.
David Gilmour
#78. Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
James Purefoy
#79. Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsover things are of good report ... think on these things. Philippians 4:8
Anne-Marie Pol
#80. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. (PHILIPPIANS 4:8)
Lysa TerKeurst
#81. Here too it's masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show ...
I'd gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#82. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely.
Colum McCann
#83. If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that makes people say crazy things and write lazy articles, a serious swarm of flies ends up in my ointment.
Carl Zimmer
#84. The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
Octavia E. Butler
#85. Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.
Merlin Stone
#86. How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty ... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things ... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. Life is addition! Death is subtraction. You add to your life by imagining whatsoever things are true, lovely, noble, and Godlike. Imagine and feel yourself successful, and you must become successful. You are never a slave to circumstances, environment, or conditions.
Joseph Murphy
#88. His eyes slink over me. "I forgot to tell you- you look lovely."
Lovely. I want to laugh at his words. "You shouldn't have bothered with the compliment," I say, "I'm many things, and the least impressive of them is lovely."
.... Lovely. What a load of bullshit.
Laura Thalassa
#89. and over our heads will float the bluebird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be. But before this comes to pass we must cultivate the lost art of lying
Oscar Wilde
#90. Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all.
Leah Thomas
#91. I love you more than anybody in the world ... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.
Dylan Thomas
#92. It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
Louisa May Alcott
#93. There are few things related with us, which are funny for the world but we are proud of them.
Lovely Goyal
#94. Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance ...
Aya Kito
#95. Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.
Melissa Marr
#96. I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night.
Sara Teasdale
#97. I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.
Alessandro Del Piero
#98. Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.
Renee Manfredi
#99. And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#100. Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.
Charles Spurgeon
