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Quotes About Loveliest

Now grandfather Satan's wife was called Phyllis: and apart from having wings like a bat's, she was the loveliest little slip of devilishness that Jurgen had seen in a long while.
~ James Branch Cabell
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
~ Walter Scott
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
~ Eva Ibbotson
An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed.Have I not seen the loveliest woman bornOut of the mouth of Plenty's horn,Because of her opinionated mindBarter that horn and every goodBy quiet natures understoodFor an old bellows full of angry wind?
~ William Butler Yeats
Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people
~ Jan Morris
The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all,I know immortal ones composed only of tears.
~ Alfred de Musset
Oh, Jesus, it was the loveliest and most terrible thing he'd ever seen; it was the source of the world; and his shame was so immediate that he let the fabric slip back into place after only a second or two.
~ Richard Yates
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.
~ Aristotle
Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
~ William C. Bryant
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
~ Eva Ibbotson
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
~ Sir Walter Scott
and every lady's rose-leafy dress flapping soft and silky around her hips, and she looking like the most loveliest parasol.
~ Mark Twain
Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like you and me from ourselves. She's the loveliest literary device in the world.
~ Matthew Norman
You shall have the old home still [adverb, not noun — although Jack was by no means out of sympathy with Stubbs' kind of farm produce] and I shall lead to the altar the beauteous Ermengarde, loveliest of her sex!
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It was the loveliest hour of the English year: seven o'clock on Midsummer Night.
~ Stella Gibbons
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
~ Herman Melville
He was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.
~ Homer
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
~ Joseph Addison
The loveliest fairy tale of childhood is that everything happens in order.
~ Philip Roth
The loveliest girl in Berlin, all the young men agreed.
~ Unknown
Don't blame; only resolve. It is not man and the earth at their loveliest, but you practising the art of revision make paradise. The evidence of this truth can lie only in your own experience of it. Try revising the day. It is to the pruning shears of revision that we owe our prime fruit.
~ Neville Goddard