Pallid Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting… — George Eliot
C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to… — Robert Adams
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe… — Margaret Atwood
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men! — Ezra Pound
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot… — David Foster Wallace
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. — Anton Szandor LaVey
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks… — Edward Augustus Bowles
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. — Benjamin Disraeli
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at… — Emily Dickinson
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. — Rita Mae Brown
She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints… — Khaled Hosseini
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes… — Edgar Allan Poe
And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in… — Arthur Rimbaud
Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will… — Marguerite Yourcenar
It looks as if Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat And its eyes shut with overeagerness To see what people found so interesting… — Robert Frost

Who Wrote These Pallid Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Pallid Quotes as follows: