“Autumn brings the picturesque harmony of perfection.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff. — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
I have been to the South several times. The picturesque locations were a real treat for the eyes and I also love… — Shibani Dandekar 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 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
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. — Henry David Thoreau 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... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. — E. J. Hughes 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
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
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
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
In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To… — David Grubbs 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
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
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
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
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
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
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
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
“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
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule 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
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
