Brown Quotes

956 Brown quotes by 727 unique authors

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater. — William Carlos Williams
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the… — Shel Silverstein
After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a… — Frank O'Hara
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.… — John Bellairs
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have… — Oscar Wilde
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in… — Anne Rice
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole… — Gunter Grass
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental… — Emily Dickinson
Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd… — Frank O'Hara
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see… — Ray Bradbury
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing. — Colleen McCullough
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a… — Betty Smith
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only… — William Shakespeare
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its… — Jack Kerouac
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown. — Paul Newman

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