Shade quotes

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
-- Aaron Hill

#Night #Veils #Shade

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Drawing #Shapes #Shade

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Library #Shade #Absence

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
-- Alexander Pope

#Envy #Shade #Merit

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
-- Alexander Pope

#Light #Criticism #Shade

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
-- Alexander Pope

#Soul #Paradise #Shade

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.
-- Alexis Denisof

#Believe #Reality #Shade

We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
-- Alfred Austin

#Passion #Feet #Shade

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
-- Alfred Marshall

#Needs #Use #Shade

Modesty and dew love the shade.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Retirement #Dew #Shade

I'd rather see the world as a rainbow than endless shade of gray.
-- Amani

#Rainbow #World #Shade

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Science #Two #Shade

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Giving #Shade #Dogma

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
-- Andrew Marvell

#Tree #Green #Shade

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.
-- Anne Rice

#Blue #Sky #Shade

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
-- Arthur Alfred Lynch

#Anxiety #Haunting #Shade

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders

#Light #Shade #Nonsense

There is a shade of red for every woman.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Fashion #Shade #Red

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Girl #Wrecks #Shade

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Dust #Shade #Life Is

Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
-- Ben Hogan

#Golf #Shade #Remember

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
-- Bette Greene

#Mind #Maestro #Shade

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
-- Bill Brandt

#Photography #Paper #Shade

I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.
-- Blake Ross

#Entrepreneur #Shade #Gray

Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.
-- Blake Shelton

#Beach #Tree #Shade

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Play #Shade

My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.
-- Brad Goreski

#Shade #My Future

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
-- C.P. Cavafy

#Light #Shade #Enough

I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.
-- Carla Gugino

#Fifty #Shade #Grey

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
-- Charles Dickens

#Tree #Way #Shade

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.
-- Christopher Golden

#Evil #Battle #Shade

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
-- Chuck Page

#Teamwork #Shade #Leafs

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
-- Constantin Brancusi

#Life #Tree #Shade

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.
-- Dakota Johnson

#People #Fifty #Shade

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
-- Dan Aykroyd

#Hair #Long #Shade

One is but a shade of the other.
-- Danielle Trussoni

#Shade

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
-- David Boies

#Simple #Shade #Complicated

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.
-- Duane Chapman

#Emotional #Shade

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
-- Elizabeth Hurley

#Hair #Skins #Shade

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
-- Elizabeth Noble

#Black And White #Shade #Where You Are

Metal shades only give directional lighting, which is great for a desk or work area, but not for ambient lighting. Fabric shades are much softer.
-- Emily Henderson

#Giving #Fabric #Shade

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
-- Euripides

#Shade #Lasts #Virtue

I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
-- Evelyn Lauder

#Hair #Skins #Shade

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.
-- Gene Siskel

#Errors #Shade #Facts

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.
-- George MacDonald Fraser

#Making Love #Mind #Shade

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.
-- Gladys Hasty Carroll

#White #Black #Shade

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Blessed #Rain #Shade

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Tree #Growing #Shade

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Holly Golightly

#Girl #Wrecks #Shade

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.
-- Homer

#Shadow #Hunters #Shade

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.
-- James Gates Percival

#Farewell #Night #Shade

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
-- James Lovelock

#Sunshine #Space #Shade

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
-- Jan Morris

#Light #Soul #Shade

What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
-- Jana Oliver

#Flames #Shade #Underwear

My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.
-- Jane Asher

#Orange #Looks #Shade

Try asking sometime. Not all women will stand for that 50 Shades crap, you know.
-- Jill Shalvis

#Trying #Asking #Shade

You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and— "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a present?
-- Jim Butcher

#Eye #Shade #Athleticism

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.
-- John French Sloan

#Light #Lines #Shade

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.
-- John Keats

#Moss #May #Shade

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
-- John le Carre

#War #Literature #Shade

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.
-- Juliet Marillier

#Hair #Shade #Sunlight

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.
-- Karen White

#Rain #Shade #Sun

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Blue #Color #Shade

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
-- Keith Olbermann

#Men #Politics #Shade

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Color #Long #Shade

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Shade #Cruelty #Benevolence

He looked a shade too healthy and nobody likes that. Particularly in New York.
-- Kinky Friedman

#New York #Health #Shade

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.
-- Kobayashi Issa

#Flower #Shade #Stranger

Horror Hotel, as wraith called Shade's house. "Vampires, demons, and werewolves check in... and then they make out, and-
-- Larissa Ione

#House #Vampire #Shade

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
-- Laura Mvula

#Chocolate #Skins #Shade

Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.
-- Leatrice Eiseman

#Color #Perfect #Shade

Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer.
-- Leatrice Eiseman

#Stress #Blue #Shade

Timeless and versatile, Toasted Almond is an organic shade that speaks to authenticity and all that is natural.
-- Leatrice Eiseman

#Almonds #Shade #Speak

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election
-- Len McCluskey

#Believe #Next #Shade

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
-- Lord Chesterfield

#Teacher #Giving #Shade

Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades.
-- Lubov Azria

#Lines #Shade #Silhouettes

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Dog #Shade #Hours

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Faith #Lines #Shade

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
-- Mary Balogh

#Breathing #Shade #Language

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
-- Mary E. Pearson

#Rain #Shade #Grass

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,
-- Mary E. Pearson

#Sky #Way #Shade

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Shade #Hours #Ill

Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!
-- MaryJanice Davidson

#Shoes #Interesting #Shade

Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful.
-- Michael Dolan

#Life #Beautiful #Shade

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.
-- Nathalia Crane

#Contentment #Mold #Shade

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?
-- Neal Shusterman

#Choices #Shade #Figures

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.
-- Neil Cavuto

#People #Shade #Literature

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-- Nelson Henderson

#Graduation #Tree #Shade

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
-- Norman Parkinson

#People #Luck #Shade

Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Shade #Might #Maids

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
-- Paul Celan

#Shade #Speak

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
-- Phillis Wheatley

#Confusion #Shade #Looks

I work in three shades of black.
-- Rei Kawakubo

#Fashion #Black #Shade

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.
-- Richard Barnfield

#Sitting #May #Shade

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God
-- Richard Clarke Cabot

#Shade #Sacred #Speak

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
-- Robert Pollok

#Shade #Phantoms #Fleeting

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
-- Samuel Johnson

#Sunshine #Shade #Brightness

NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.
-- Sarah Thyre

#Real #Shade #Enough

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
-- Tami Hoag

#Black And White #Shade #World

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
-- Thomas Hood

#Moon #Fickle #Shade