1.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Alexander the Great
Labor and hazard are the cost of renown, but it is a beautiful thing to live with valor and pass away leaving an imperishable legacy.
2.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
Saadi
Whatever stirs the emotions appears delightful to behold.
3.
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
Oscar Wilde
'My circle of companionship consists exclusively of creatives and those who have endured hardship: they understand the essence of life - beauty, grief - while all others are irrelevant.'
4.
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
Christian Dior
God has bestowed the world with the most beautiful of creations: women and flowers.
5.
How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
Vincent Van Gogh
What a beautiful hue yellow is! It symbolizes the sun.
6.
Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.
Ariana Grande
All individuals are resplendent, all persons are ideal, and each person is delightful.
7.
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
8.
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson
9.
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
Marie Corelli
10.
I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
Jackie Collins
11.
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Julie Andrews
12.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
14.
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
Amy Tan
15.
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
Bea Arthur
16.
In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.
Pindar
17.
everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.
Dan Millman
21.
God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!
Max Lucado
22.
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
Naomi Campbell
23.
As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it.
Jamie Oliver
24.
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.
Taylor Swift
25.
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
John Updike
26.
You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky.
Kit Harington
27.
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
Mark Twain
28.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
John Steinbeck
29.
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
30.
It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.
KT Tunstall
31.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Rumi
32.
I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.
Bryan Cranston
33.
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
Robert Southey
34.
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
35.
It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.
Vin Scully
36.
If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.
Eugenia Price
37.
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.
Patricia MacLachlan
38.
I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you." It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.
Peter Cook
39.
One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people.
Duane Allman
40.
There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.
Selena Gomez
41.
If you went to live in the Himalayas and everyone was lovely there, I'm sure it would be fairly easy to be a spiritual master.
Marianne Williamson
42.
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.
Fred Rogers
44.
Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
Richard Matheson
45.
I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.
Sienna Miller
46.
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
Stephen Dunn
47.
A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Jonathan Edwards
48.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
Jack Gilbert
49.
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
Daniel Woodrell
50.
Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
George MacDonald