Adam Schlesinger
Adam Schlesinger

Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Anatole Broyard
Anatole Broyard

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

Diana Penty
Diana Penty

This is the beauty of Rajasthan; everything is so picturesque.

Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Gutzon Borglum
Gutzon Borglum

You have here In New York one of the greatest and most picturesque and artistic structures in the world. I mean the Brooklyn Bridge.

Henry Golding
Henry Golding

Bali is the sort of place where you can walk down the street and find something picturesque.

James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson

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.