Quotes About Contrast

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.

The image of God cut in ebony.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.