Quotes About Contrast

Aristotle doesn't exist for Nietzsche.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

And where love ends, hate begins

Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church." "Appropriately enough," I muttered.

Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph.

Your honied words, your honied love. Under all your honey runs a conduit of venom.

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.

You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

incandescent afternoons in Spain, the shutters closed, a blade of sun burning into the darkness.

The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.

The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman.

The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

Half a mile from Haverstraw there lived a halfwit fellow, Half his house was brick and red, and half was wood and yellow; Half the town knew half his name but only half could spell it. If you will sit for half an hour, I've half a mind to tell it.

In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

Were Wilde's panthers grateful or rebellious? Eventually, of course, one prefers a rebellious bedfellow. But it requires a degree of gratitude to get him into bed in the first place

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.

Faktanya adalah, kau sudah lelah menerima kesopanan, kehormatan, dan perhatian yang berlebihan. Kau sudah muak dengan para wanita yang berbicara, memandang, dan berusaha keras untuk mencari persetujuan darimu. Lalu aku datang, dan kau langsung tertarik karena aku sangat berbeda dari mereka.