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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
— Louisa May Alcott
It was a clear, picturesque day, a February day without could, without emotion or spirit, like a beautiful women with an empty face.
— Annie Dillard
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
— Anatole Broyard
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
— Anthony Trollope
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
— Walt Whitman
— Walt Whitman
She was known for her volcanic passion for Romantic music that erupted regularly during her lessons, then cooled and settled in between.
— Tori De Clare
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.
— Herman Melville
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
— Agatha Christie
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
— Dorothea Lange
The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.
— Andrew Miller
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The feeling of freedom, driving into scenery as green and lush as a postcard of Ireland was close to bliss.
— Diane Meier
It is ... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
— E. J. Hughes
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.
— William Topaz McGonagall
The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.
— Charles Dickens
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
— Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
Stu stood nearby also, his camera flash spastic and incessant, like the light of a caffeinated firefly.
— Tamara Ward
It was late January in Draper, Utah, and as picturesque as the snow on the mountains was, it did not mix well with our modern lifestyle.
— Mette Ivie Harrison
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
— Childe Hassam
The day was hot, the sun high, and the silence was so think you'd have thought the sky didn't have any air in it.
— Alice Blanchard
His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.
— Joseph Conrad
In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.
— Sally Gardner
As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
— William Henry Maule
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
— Nicholas Kristof
Look closely and the picturesque inevitably cracks apart and becomes more interesting.
— Anthony Doerr
That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done.
— Joseph Conrad
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
— Douglas William Jerrold