Loveliness Quotes

146 Loveliness quotes by 109 unique authors

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. — Emma Thompson
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet… — John Keats
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes… — James Allen
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie… — Thomas Moore
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that… — William T. Vollmann
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its… — Therese of Lisieux
To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo… — Brigham Young
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily… — Edgar Allan Poe
…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable… — Sheldon Vanauken
through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and… — Isak Dinesen
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. — William Carlos Williams
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. — Therese of Lisieux
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… — Jean Rhys
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will… — Marilynne Robinson
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made,… — Gretchen Rubin
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness — Galway Kinnell
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain,… — Daphne du Maurier
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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