Pale Quotes · Page 17

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

— William Manchester

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling…

— Mark Twain

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate…

— Philip Pullman

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

— William Shakespeare

Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains…

— Olaf Stapledon

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough…

— William Butler Yeats

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!

— Woody Allen

More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale…

— Gertrude Jekyll

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

— Sylvia Plath

I'm not ill, I'm just pale.

— Nicola Roberts

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,…

— Jean Anouilh

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of…

— Virginia Woolf

So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I was wondering…

— Michael Buckley

The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real…

— Nic Sheff

“He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.”

— Honoré de Balzac

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this…

— Rudolf Flesch

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them.…

— James Frey

'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

— Domhnall Gleeson

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

— Samuel Johnson

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

— Juvenal

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

— Clint Eastwood

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With…

— Jess Walter

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

— Walter Raleigh

I'd like to be a bit less pale because I feel like I look sort of ill sometimes.

— Lara Stone