Quotes About Contrast

We spent a century closed up within four walls and a roof. We are claustrophobic. We prefer the sun and the wind and the sea though it bites some of us who are made of metal, and tears papery hearts.

Jee haan, but they are the same! One hunts, one runs; one chews the carrot, one chews the Sir John Hurt. One makes eggs that go BANG! One makes Acme traps that go BANG! See? Sameful.

She could be quite brave in the presence of a Wyverary, but tall and lovely ladies made her shy, even if they were made of soap.

Quando alguém está a viajar, tudo parece mais luminoso e mais agradável, o que não significa que seja mais luminoso e mais agradável, significa apenas que o lar terno e aprazível sofre em comparação com lugares desconhecidos aprimorados, com tudo o que têm de melhor à mostra.

What is the purpose of a Fairyland if everything lovely is outlawed, just like in the real world?

When one is travelling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it is brigther and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparasion to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.

All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat

My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.

The physical beauty of Venice and the moral ugliness of America were more and more difficult for Julian to reconcile.

Different people, different tastes...

Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.

Every happiness is a bright ray between shadows, every gaiety bracketed by grief. There is no birth that does not recall a death, no victory but brings to mind a defeat. So was that commencement a celebration.

Well, I have five brothers—Rest, Thankful, Watching, Patience, Consider—and each one of them the very opposite of their name.

she was the least princessy woman he'd ever been with: it didn't take her more than ten minutes to get dressed and out the door, a big contrast to some of the women he'd dated.

The richer you are, I've worked out, the smaller your telephone and the bigger your telephoto lens.

At that moment a short, broad figure emerged from the house, looking absurdly like a giant panda dressed in a butler's black suit with a white shirt and black tie. Its round panda face had a spotlight for a nose, two eye lenses, large ears, and a speaker for a mouth.

I bear a basket lined with grass; I am so light, I am so fair, That men must wonder as I pass And at the basket that I bear, Where in a newly-drawn green litter Sweet flowers I carry, -- sweets for bitter. Lilies I shew you, lilies none, None in Caesar's gardens blow, -- And a quince in hand, -- not one Is set, because their buds not spring; Spring not, 'cause world is wintering....

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

All things counter, original, spare, strange...

The beauty we find is from the comparison we make of the things with themselves, seeing their likeness and difference

Tom te tom tom, tom te tom.' zong Frits in zichzelf, 'het gaat slecht, verder gaat het goed.

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheit en athletiek op Zondagmiddag?

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheid en athletiek op Zondagmiddag