Pittoresque Quotes & Sayings

It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll. — Benjamin Disraeli

The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true. — Alexander McCall Smith

When I thought about it, there actually weren't a lot of things or people in the world that I loved. Why had I left them here? — Penelope Douglas

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham. — David Bailey

An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter. — Paul Cezanne

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.' — Dallas Willard

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser