Grey Quotes
433 Grey quotes by 336 unique authors
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My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month,…
— Tracy Chevalier
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out…
— Clement Attlee
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The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over…
— Eileen Myles
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
— Jerry Garcia
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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
— Walter Scott
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I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its…
— Nikola Tesla
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
— Odilon Redon
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning…
— Kamala Markandaya
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There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's…
— Bill Parcells
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun…
— Jimmy Greaves
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The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There…
— Akif Pirincci
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I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate.…
— Leslie Charteris
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Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to…
— John Austin Baker
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To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with a box set.…
— Jessica Ennis
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The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness,…
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you…
— Elizabeth Hay
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For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health;…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Grey Quotes
336 authors contributed a total of 433 Grey Quotes, led by these top contributors: