The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If… — James Weldon Johnson 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
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
“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
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard 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
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had… — William Shatner 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
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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
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
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which… — James Oliver Curwood 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
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
The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel.… — Rachel Cusk 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
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
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
