Quotes About Contrast

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle, and dance in a glorious jubilee.

She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. 

a o?i bi bile neodoljive kad bi imale prijateljski izražaj. Na sre?u za moje osjetljivo srce, jedini osje?aj koji su one jasno pokazivale vrtio se izme?u prezira i nekakva o?aja, svakako neobi?no i neprirodno otkri?e u takvim mladim o?ima.

trn se ne uvija oko kozje krvi nego kozja krv grli trn.

But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.

jedan je zlato uporabljen kao kamen za plo?nike, a drugi je kositar, ulašten da bi oponašao srebrno posu?e.

felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.

Zindanda yatan için zindandaki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸi, köÅŸkte oturan için köÅŸkteki örümceÄŸin çekiciliÄŸinden farkl?d?r.

Next morning—bright and cheerful out of doors—stole softened in through the blinds of the silent room, and suffused the couch and its occupant with a mellow, tender glow. Edgar Linton had his head laid on the pillow, and his eyes shut. His young and fair features were almost as deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed: but his was the hush of exhausted anguish, and hers of perfect peace.

Atât de lipsit? de speran?? e lumea din afar?, încât de dou? ori mai preÅ£ioas? mi-e lumea din interior.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded; and who can be ill-natured, and bad-tempered, when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

powiedzia?am mu, ?e jego niebo by?oby md?e i nudne, a on odpar?, ?e moje by?oby pijane.

I said his heaven would only be half alive, and he said mine would be drunk; I said I should fall asleep in his, and he said he could not breathe in mine.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn … who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

Teu sangue sempre calmo não conhece as ardências da febre. Tuas veias estão cheias de água gelada. Mas as minhas fervem e, diante de semelhante frieza, pulam.

Tú no perderás tu sangre fría, porque por tus venas no corre más que agua helada, pero mi sangre está hirviendo y tu frialdad me excita hasta lo inconcebible.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

The forest was almost like a garden - no brambles, no thorns, nothing to stumble over, no rotten stumps, no fallen branches, all mellow to look at, melodious to hear, every kind of bird, all singing, no awed hush, no vast echoes, just beautiful, smiling woods, not solemn, solemn, solemn like our forests. This exquisite, enchanting gentleness was perfect for one day, but not for always - we were Canadians.

Vancouver city was more beautiful to look at across the water than to be in.

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

You will forgive me, for I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the Dandelion, make but sorry figure in a Drawing -- room -- Did you ask me out with a bunch of Daisies, I should thank you, and accept --