Colour Quotes

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I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour. — Marcus Aurelius
There either is or is not, thatâ€™s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The… — Charles Dickens
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in… — Jeanette Winterson
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air… — Anchee Min
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. — Thomas Hardy
For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the… — Mervyn Peake
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is… — Alejandra Pizarnik
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. — Neil Gaiman
Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his… — Edmond Rostand
He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the… — Maureen Medved
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
All colours are arbitrary. — Carl Sagan
A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. — Charlotte Bronte
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. — Anne Rice

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