lovely quotes

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, thinkon these things.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 4:8.

In Claude's landscape all is lovelyall amiableall is amenity and repose;the calm sunshine of the heart.

-John Constable
  Lecture, 2  Jun. Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843).

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour. Let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou have paid thy utmost blessing.

-Walter de la Mare
  'Fare Well'.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.

How lovely is thy dwelling-place O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be!

-Scottish Metrical Psalms
  Psalm 84:1.

   He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 43.

As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

-John Hanning Speke
  In Karagwe, west of LakeVictoria, among the Galla people. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.