Quotes About Contrast

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

A great city, a great solitude.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

The sword is brother to the olive wreath.