A Lovely Quotes

Your pain is a school unto itself and your joy a lovely temple.
- Aberjhani

My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
- J R R Tolkien

Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for the vase, she slipped on the tile and overturned an entire table. A lovely handblown piece of glass flew in my direction, and all I could think as I caught it was, Really? Again? We were going to have to practice muscle control.
- Darynda Jones

I've kept a single image of that time, and it is already fading: the image of a lovely face grown thin and of two eyes whose lids slowly droop as they glance at me, as if her gaze was unable to dwell on anything but an inner world.
- Alain Fournier

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.
- Paulo Coelho

It is often said that there should be no death or grief in children's stories. It is not wise to dwell on the dark and sad side of these things; but they have also a bright and lovely side, and since even the youngest, dearest, and most guarded child cannot escape some knowledge of the great mystery, is it not well to teach them in simple, cheerful ways that affection sweetens sorrow, and a lovely life can make death beautiful?
- Louisa May Alcott

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
- Louisa May Alcott

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
- Nelson Algren

Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes..
- Cassandra Clare

He's very pretty. For a human."
"He's very broken," said Magnus. "Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.
- Cassandra Clare

Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice. He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the ink faded now and barely legible, though Clary could make out the signature: With hope at last, William Herondale.
- Cassandra Clare

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.
- Ernest Hemingway

God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.
- Steve Almond

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
- Hans Christian Anderson

Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?"
"I do have a reputation to maintain."
"And what a lovely reputation that is.
- Jennifer L Armentrout

You have a lovely castle," she noted, looking around while sitting on a couch and crossing her legs before she tipped her face up to Lucien and asked mock petulantly. "Why don't we have a castle, darling?"
"You want a castle, sweetling, I'll get you a castle," Lucien answered casually.
- Kristen Ashley

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
- Richard Bach

Good luck, I said automatically and then wanted to kick myself. Good luck? Have a lovely time, Mal. Hope you find a pretty Grisha, fall deeply in love, and make lots of gorgeous disgustingly talented babies together.
I sat frozen on the steps, watching them disappear down the path, still feeling the warm pressure of Mal's hand in mine. Oh well, I thought as I got to my feet. Maybe he'll fall into a ditch on his way there.
- Leigh Bardugo

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman's face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you'd been before.
- Clive Barker

I'm enchanted by your beauty, my lady. Welcome aboard. You make a most welcome addition to our acerbic company...a lovely-smelling one, too. (Vik)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time..
- James M Barrie

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
- James M Barrie

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
- Simone De Beauvoir

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.
- Lemony Snicket

It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.
- L M Montgomery

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with...making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
- L M Montgomery

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
- John Steinbeck

This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
- John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24
- John Steinbeck

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thingmaybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed because 'Thou mayest.
- John Steinbeck

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman

I leave a lovely opalescent ribbon: I know this.
- Elizabeth Bishop

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.
- Corbin Bleu

Some days I want to put my head in the sand. There's too much pain out there, there's too much that scares me. But I wouldn't be able to breathe with my head in the sand, and I wouldn't be able to hear or see or smell. The world is a lovely place...despite the sadness it holds for each of us, despite the terrible things we do.
- James Howe

I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!
- Kelly Brook

THERE IS A LOVELY LITTLE horror story about the peasant who started through the haunted woodthe wood that was, people said, inhabited by devils who took any mortal who came their way. But the peasant thought, as he walked slowly along:
I am a good man and have done no wrong. If devils can harm me, then there isn't any justice.
A voice behind him said, There isn't.
- Fredric Brown

The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk

I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu's lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies.
"Dude." I sat up groggily. "Not cool."
"But he gave you a lovely hairdo," Sadie said.
"Agh-agh!" Khufu agreed.
- Rick Riordan

Here too it's masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show...
I'd gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
- Ellen Burstyn

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
- Rachel Caine

Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
- Rachel Caine

So that's it?" asked the expendable.
"Final decision," said Ram. "And it's the right one."
"Why do you think so?"
"Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options."
"A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions."
"Shut up," said Ram.
- Orson Scott Card

Honest labor bears a lovely face.
- Thomas Dekker

What's your name, love?"
Love? LOVE! Still dying, here.
"Bliss."
"Is that a line?"
I blushed crimson. "No, it's my name."
"Lovely name for a lovely girl.
- Cora Carmack

He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
- Angela Carter

Yelena. What a lovely day!... Not to hot either.
Voynitski. It would even be pleasant to hang oneself on a day like this.
- Anton Chekhov

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
- Julia Child

Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere.
Reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Owl City

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
- Terry Pratchett

This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right?" When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, "We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts..
- Terry Pratchett

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.
- Toni Collette

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
- Graham Coxon

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
- James Crumley

And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind's ear, "...quite enough for everybody at present," she repeated. After all the foreign languages she had been hearing, it sounded to her pure English. What a lovely language, she thought, saying over to herself again the common place words...
- Virginia Woolf

So please oh please we beg we pray throw your T.V set away and in it's place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
- Roald Dahl

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go through your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely book case on the wall.
- Roald Dahl

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!
- Roald Dahl

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
- Roald Dahl

My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night, but ah my foes and oh my friends, it gives a lovely light.
- Roald Dahl

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
Brian Sibley: Or brains even?
Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.
If you're kind that's it.
- Roald Dahl

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
- Roald Dahl

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
- Jim Dale

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
- Kurt Vonnegut

She is like the morning," he said. "With that golden hair, those blue eyes, and that fresh bloom on her cheek, she is like the summer morning. The birds here will mistake her for it. We will not call such a lovely young creature as that, who is a joy to all mankind, an orphan. She is the child of the universe.
- Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens

What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

Tell me about the first time you killed someone."
The Werewolf Stuff. For Maddy it's another client quirk, but one she's hooked on. In the posteverything world it turns out humans can't kick the story habit. Homer gets the last laugh. "A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her."
She didn't speak for a moment, then said: "What?"
"Nothing.
- Glen Duncan

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.
- Amy Efaw

It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to be sinful and wicked anymore. I would come and live here, and never do any more wrong, and lead a blameless, beautiful life, and have silver hair when I got old, and all that sort of thing.
- Jerome K Jerome

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.
- Jennifer Ellison

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.
- Anna Eshoo

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
- Mike Farrell

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
- Garrison Keillor

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
- Barbara Feldon

Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.
- Helen Fielding

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
- Harvey Fierstein

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him.
- Richard Fleeshman

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
- Victor Hugo

My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
- Maureen Forrester

Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.
- Jonathan Franzen

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
- Kirsty Gallacher

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far
- Sara Teasdale

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together..
- Arthur Golden

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
- Rachel Griffiths

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
- Julie Harris

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
- Ian Hart

A beau-ti-ful girl in a love-ly world
Touches the stars and her wings unfurl.
- L S Hartfield

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.
- Goldie Hawn

Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.
'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his
massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...'
'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!'
'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like I love you.
- J K Rowling

Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.
- Rachel Hill

In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
- Christopher Hitchens

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
- Christopher Hitchens

I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.
- Amanda Holden

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard

Writing isn't my life...it's a lovely part of my life... but it's not my life. My life is family, friends, fishing, food...things like reading and painting and all the rest of it, and you can't really prioritize when you're involved with family or you're involved in fishing, you can't say, 'Oh, I really should be writing.
- Keri Hulme

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
- Jean Paul Sartre

He feels it, too. His eyes widen. A lovely hazel. Green with flecks of brown and gold. The colors I love. The colors of the earth.
- Sophie Jordan

One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory
- W B Yeats

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
- Jack Kerouac

For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
- Jack Kerouac

Look," she sighed. "You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son." (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.)
- Marian Keyes

Hovering over at the Self Help section, there she was legs long and lean in a lovely sundress, holding a copy of EAT, PRAY, LOVE in one hand and awkwardly browsing through something titled "KNOW YOUR CHAKRAS".
- Cyma Rizwaan Khan

At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.
- Keira Knightley

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.
- Anne Lamott

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
- Ann Landers

Mum said earlier what a lovely dress
you're wearing."
Beryl's eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. "This?" she said. "But I've had this for years."
It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman.
"I think you've really grown into it," Valkyrie said.
"I always thought it was a little shapeless."
Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.
- Derek Landy

He crouched at the care window and looked in. "What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one." His finger jabbed the glass. "That one's a bit ugly."
The American stepped towards him. "What? What did you say?"
"Oh, don't worry. I'm sure his personality makes up for his face.
- Derek Landy

He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.
- Derek Landy

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.
- D H Lawrence

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- C S Lewis

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive
- C S Lewis

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
- C S Lewis

Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
- Sarah J Maas

She stared at the castle unflinchingly, her form silhouetted against the blazing brightness that sat on the edge of the Avery River. Clouds gathered above them and she raised her head. Through a clearing in the swirling mass, a cluster of stars could be seen. He couldn't help thinking that they gazed down at her...
The image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back
- Sarah J Maas

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
- Reese Witherspoon

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.
- Kyle Maclachlan

Also-and this is critical-you are not ugly."
She blinked.
Nick's eyes danced with amusement.
"Remember, Isabel. It was your brother who said it. I would not dare to take credit for such pretty words. I would have said something more pedestrian. It takes a great orator to come up with -"
"Not ugly." She gave a little shake of her head.
"What a lovely compliment.
- Sarah Maclean

Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.
- Melissa Marr

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
- Harpo Marx

What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.
- Sayo Masuda

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- W Somerset Maugham

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
- Peter Max

The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with Europa.
- David Mccullough

A blanket could be used as a lovely rug, a rug that just so happens to be covering a large hole, you should really feel this rug!
- Nicole Mckay

Did he happen to select a color too?"
"Blue."
"Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white.
Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said"
Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.
- Judith Mcnaught

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
- Edna St Vincent Millay

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.
- Sienna Miller

Cat got your tongue? And what a lovely tongue it is. I know. It licked every inch of me. Repeatedly. For months, He purred but with steel in the velvet
- Karen Marie Moning

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
- Toni Morrison

Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In such a face a lovely luminosity shines out into the world. It casts a tender light that radiates a sense of wholeness and wholesomeness.
- John O Donohue

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
- Edward Norton

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
- Kim Novak

The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final answer their worth is misshapen and distorted. The world's story may end with a couple living happily ever after but our life in Christ enables the intimacy of the human relationship to illuminate an eternal perfection. In a balanced perspective, neither denigrated nor exalted from their intended place, fairy tales are a lovely and exhilarating part of life.
- Natalie Nyquist

Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.
- Heather O Neill

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.
- Jamie Oliver

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.
- Michael J Owen

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
- Tom Peters

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.
- Joaquin Phoenix

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
- Billie Piper

And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough.
- Julie Powell

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
- Daniel Radcliffe

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
- Amy Tan

Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time...Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open.
- Sylvain Reynard

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.
- Ann Robinson

Whoa. I'v never heard him sing, not even in the shower, ever. I frown. He has a lovely voice- of course. Hmm...has he heard me sing?
HE WOULDN'T BE ASKING TO MARRY YOU IF HE HAD! My subconscious has her arms crossed and is wearing Burberry check..jeez.
- James E Rogers

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?
- Leopold Von Sacher Masoch

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
- Maurice Sendak

While I waited for Adley to answer, I took in our surroundings. The sky was a lovely shade of pink, there were scattered flowers outlining the river all of them varying shades of blue. Birds flew above us, humming the sweetest of sounds.
Things seemed almost perfect. Almost, since the circumstances over which we'd escaped to this place were undesirable.
- Nicole Sobon

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?
- Casey Stengel

Who is this? And what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they crossed themselves for fear,
All the Knights at Camelot;
But Lancelot mused a little space
He said, She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
- Amor Towles

Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria's finest was sworn in as governor of the great state of California.
- J Maarten Troost

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.
- Robert Walser

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
- Lalla Ward

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
- Mary Wesley

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
- Vivienne Westwood

What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?
- Eileen Wilks

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
- William Wordsworth

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't wanna live there.
- Adam Young

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Adam Young