Picturesque Quotes
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope
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
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman