Best Picturesque Quotes

44 Picturesque quotes by 40 unique authors

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. — Henry David Thoreau
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. — Walt Whitman
What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question… — Ernest Hemingway
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to… — Donna Tartt
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She… — Oscar Wilde
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind. — Louisa May Alcott
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was… — Virginia Woolf
The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and… — Alice Morse Earle
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough… — Henry David Thoreau

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