Colour Quotes

781 Colour quotes by 574 unique authors

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
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? — Virginia Woolf
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. — Roberto Bolano
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its… — Mikhail Bulgakov
I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink… — Jeanette Winterson
A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame.… — Tanith Lee
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its… — Jean Rhys
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. — J D Salinger
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood… — Jose Saramago

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