Colour Quotes - Page 17

• A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same.

  Tanith Lee

  Kissing, Love Is, Flames

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• He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Tree, Red, Violet

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hair, Hands, People

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• With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Mirrors, Blood

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• If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Gay, Bisexual

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Giving, People, Body

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.95, 谷月社

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• Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

  Richard Dawkins

  Order, Flying, Tests

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Optimistic

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Girl, Ties, Hair

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• There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

  Alex Garland

  Blue, Use, World

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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• Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

  Roma Tearne

  Agendas, Invisible, Grey

  Roma Tearne (2008). “Mosquito”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

  Markus Zusak

  Memories, Heart, Clouds

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• And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Eye, Winter

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• Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

  John Galsworthy

  Weed, Flower, Sunshine

  John Galsworthy (2011). “The Forsyte Saga 1: The Man of Property: The Forsyte Saga: Book One”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.

  Jean Webster

  Writing, Yellow, White

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• We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Fun, Dark

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• Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

  Banksy

  Wall, Party, Bus Stops

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• The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Blue, Mystical Experiences

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?" Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way. But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious." Well, then, thanks. Sort of." I grinned. "You're sort of welcome.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Jealous, Eye

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1910). “The Art of Literature: a Series of Essays in Arthur Schopenhauer...”

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• It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.

  Terry Pratchett

  Glowing, Purple, Imagination

  "The Colour of Magic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1983.

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• Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

  Yann Martel

  Stories, Noise, Painting

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[...].

  Neil Gaiman

  Black, Costumes, Imagine

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Style

  "Beauty in Bloom : A Collection of Beautiful Inspirations‎" by Natalie Bloom, (p. 23), 2009.

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