Pale Quotes - Page 20

• Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, Fake, Forget

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• Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

  William Butler Yeats

  Rain, Eye, Blue

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.95, Library of Alexandria

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• With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Generosity

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]

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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Guilt, Clear, Turns

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

  William C. Bryant

  Guilt, Misery

  William Cullen Bryant, “Inscription For The Entrance To A Wood”

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• Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

  William Shakespeare

  Choices, Coward, Affection

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Summer, People, World

  "Not My Job: Jim Gaffigan Takes A Quiz On Gwyneth Paltrow". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 26, 2013.

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• God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

  Kenneth Rand

  Mirages, Faces, Life Is

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• Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

  George Wither

  Love, Despair, Care

  George Wither (1968). “The poetry of George Wither”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Purple, Yellow

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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  There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

  Bill Nye

  Race, Blue, Space

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.183

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• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

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• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Yellow, Black

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• With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

  Charles Churchill

  Envy, Turns, Envied

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.6

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• Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

  Charles Churchill

  Purple, Shining, Vices

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill ...”, p.77

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• White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Garden, White

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• And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Prayer, Night, Light

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Dark, Night, Reflection

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Blood, Green, Whole

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• There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

  Dean Stockwell

  Thinking, Political, Environmental

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• Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Envy, Praise

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• I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Girl, Eye, Red Lipstick

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