Dawn Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dawn Feet Frightened Girl Long Silent Silver Streets
Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“She rode down the sidewalk, turned toward the shadow side of the street and melted into darkness. I didn't know it then, but after… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Shortly after, the aqueous symphony of dawn began. The last day of the Walk came up wet and overcast. The wind howled down the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The moon was full, shining enough light down for Scarlet to make out the hundreds of gravestones lined up in the wet grass and the dozens of standing tombs that rose up in various places throughout the yard. Giant trees swayed in the winter wind, throwing shadows across the grounds and making it look like the darkness was alive. Graveyards… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street — John McCrae Copy Share Image
The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang like a rosy veil over commonplace features, an average outline and a pointless merriment. But this was something calculated, accomplished, finished--and just a little worn. It frightened me with my first glimpse of the infinity of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Copy Share Image
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
You've reached your 60th birthday, Bill To the year, the day, the hour You've been a lifelong country boy Along with Lily, your flower… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image