scenery quotes

Rather lovely descriptions of scenery, don't you think?

- Martin Bell
  Remark to Robert Medley and Rupert Doone, when asked what she thought of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Recalled in Robert Medley Drawn from the Life: a Memoir (1983), p.91.

Scenery is finebut human nature is finer.

-John Keats
  Letter to Benjamin Bailey,13 Mar.

More glutton than artist†he commences to chew up the scenery.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Play review, alluding to an unidentified actor.This is said to have been the origin of the phrase'chew up the scenery', used to describe an actor who is'hamming it up'.

  Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

-John Ruskin
  Modern Painters, vol.4, pt.5, ch.20.

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Roughing It, ch.17.

The scenery was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Play review.