Top Picturesque Quotes
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
Anatole Broyard 
Anthony Trollope 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Henry David Thoreau 
Nancy Astor 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
Walt Whitman 
Marguerite Gardiner 
Primo Levi 
James Weldon Johnson All Picturesque Quotes
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
Anatole Broyard 
60% of people like this quote
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
59% of people like this quote
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Primo Levi
57% of people like this quote
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson
52% of people like this quote
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
52% of people like this quote
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Marguerite Gardiner
50% of people like this quote
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
49% of people like this quote
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope
47% of people like this quote
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
42% of people like this quote