Chartreuse Quotes:

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Religious, People, Decay, Chartreuse

The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.

- Poppy Z. Brite

topic: Eye, Dark, Hands, Glow In The Dark, Mardi Gras

A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.

- Frederic Chopin

topic: Adventure, Night, Piano, Chartreuse, Sonatas

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

- Matthew Arnold

source: "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" l. 85 (1855)

topic: Two, World, Born, Chartreuse

In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

- John Lahr

source: "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

topic: West Side, West Side Story, Chartreuse, Periwinkle, Age Life

Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.

- Allen Lacy

topic: Light, White, Survival, Chartreuse