"Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this……" — Leo Tolstoy
"Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night."
More Brightness Quotes
- There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting… — Charles Edward Jefferson
- Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Woodrow Wilson
- Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the… — Robert Stawell Ball
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of… — Bertrand Russell
- Money refused loose its brightness. — George Herbert
- We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke
- My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
- Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna.… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
- I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a… — Diane Arbus
- The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
- Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at… — Thomas Adams