Lovely Quotes - page 2

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . (George Eliot)
I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. View quote
Jack Kerouac
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. View quote
Edmund Burke
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. View quote
Garrison Keillor
It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head. View quote
Frank McCourt
Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. View quote
Harpo Marx
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. View quote
Thomas Cole
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. View quote
James A. Michener
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. (William Wordsworth)
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. View quote
Ann Landers
There never was a child so lovely but his mother wasn't glad to get him asleep. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears. View quote
Walter Scott
A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. View quote
Aldo Leopold
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. View quote
Anne Enright
The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. (Loretta Young)
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day. View quote
Dwight Schultz
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky. View quote
Ian Hart
I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. View quote
Mel Torme