Austen Quote by Francine Prose

“Green, which he seldom wore: acquiescent, eager to learn, eager to speak, sunny—why wasn’t he always like this?”

— André Aciman

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

— Barry McGuire

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

— Nick Bantock

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Few things disclose a person’s own colors more than their behavior with those they consider a little green.”

— James Guida

“Talking is fantastically overrated. Too many people do too much of it. It stuns the hell out of me how so many people like…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said…

— Oscar Wilde

“Colors. Would it be green or blue today? Maybe white—my favorite. A dark voice in the back of my mind offered no color at…

— Julie Hockley

You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.

— Kehinde Wiley

“I felt, just then, a kind of indebtedness to green, the colour.”

— Janet Frame

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all,…

— Robert Jordan

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

— Mary Lascelles