Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Something quite special has played out in the picturesque valleys and mountains, towns and villages of France over the past three weeks.… — Paul Ramadge Copy Share Image
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I love the idea of creating a sort of nuanced portrait of kids that they're not all perfect. They're kind of misfits… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Ella woke again as they entered the picturesque village of Bibury. A stone bridge arched over the placid River Coln, and Ella… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
