Quotes About Contrast

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.

But he heard high up in the air A piper piping away, And never was piping so sad, And never was piping so gay.

But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

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

Variety's the very spice of life.

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

Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.

The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires.

This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.

Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

To sit a fine Christian gentleman down in close proximity to an unsavoury crowd of prostitutes was bad enough. Even worse was to allow him to be humiliated intellectually by the afore-mentioned rabble. (When you must have know perfectly well that it is not given to mere policemen, as it is to street-walkers, to think coherently on their feet).

I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.

Between roars the lion purrs.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

He was driving into a world where the owls roosted with the chickens, where folks kept whippoorwills for pets and didn't get the Saturday Night Opry till Monday morning.

The cornfield seemed darker toward its center. Light entered at the rows' end, ran like liquid down the middles, getting shallower and shallower. There seemed at the convergence of the rows some mass of shadows light could not defray.

Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

Corruption, in these bugs, is splendid.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

I lay in the dark thinking about the bitterness inside the pig scarer and the sadness that was there, too, and I figured they were probably twins joined at the hip.

The snowmobiles were out in force on Iron Lake, zipping about the ice like ants frenzying on a frosted cake. In summer it was motorboats and Jet Skis and sailboats. No matter what the season the lake had little peace.