Shade Quotes

620 Shade quotes by 491 unique authors

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire
I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men… — The Notorious B.I.G.
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can… — Cherie Lunghi
Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill… — Michael Ende
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild… — Alice Hoffman
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness. — Vladimir Nabokov
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole… — Gunter Grass
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or… — Lloyd Jones
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes,… — John Clare
Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder’s eye… — Robert Jordan
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to… — Emily Giffin
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric… — Charles Bukowski
and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades — Tom Waits
Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of… — Wendy Mass
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That… — Alexander Pope
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths… — Lloyd Alexander
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the… — John Steinbeck
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And… — Walt Whitman

Who Wrote These Shade Quotes

491 authors contributed a total of 620 Shade Quotes, led by these top contributors: