Quotes About Contrast

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.

Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

La belleza no es una idea absoluta y solo puede apreciarse por contraste.

In vain did Phœbe's alabaster brow show above the horizon reflected in the sombre mirror of the river; Zamore would not bay at the moon, although such prolonged ululation gives infinite delight to creatures of his species.

La joie réside au plus intime de l'âme; on peut aussi bien la posséder dans une obscure prison que dans un palais.

the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy.

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman but talks like a man..." Th Kinks

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman and talks like a man...

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world

I see a red door and i want it painted black.

opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree;

Thus, from the very outset, and in typically effusive fashion, did Marion Crawford set out the thesis that characterizes her celebrated, indeed notorious, book, The Little Princesses. By contrasting the sterling qualities of the future Queen with her younger sister's more capricious personality, Crawfie gave authority to what – by the time of the book's publication in 1950 – many people already believed.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

Ich möchte schlafen, aber du mußt tanzen." [ Hyazinthen ]

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

It goes without saying that the artists sympathized not with the actual working classes, but with their own idea of the working classes, rather as Marie Antoinette wished to live not as a real shepherdess but as her romanticized conception of a shepherdess.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

The darkness has it's own light.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

the differences that had once been complements were now the very things that made them incompatible. Until

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

It is the grace of Christ, and not the virtue of man, which can and does bring it about that through fervor of spirit frail flesh learns to love and to gain what it naturally hates and shuns.