Quotes About Contrast

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

"You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress."

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.