Colour Quotes
781 quotes by 574 authors
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There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and…
— Jenny Downham
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Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is…
— Gregory David Roberts
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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of…
— Virginia Woolf
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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
— Charles Dickens
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That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and…
— H P Lovecraft
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There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies…
— Dawn French
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Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught,…
— Marshall McLuhan
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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
— Oscar Wilde
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astonishing splashes of colour
— James M. Barrie
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
— Oscar Wilde
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if…
— Anne Rice
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Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She…
— Rick Riordan
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Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
— Roald Dahl
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As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are…
— Jean Rhys
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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
— Lois Lowry
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What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
— Steven Erikson
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We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
— David Levithan
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Colour Quotes
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