Shade Quotes

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. (Rudyard Kipling)
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. View quote
Warren Buffett
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. View quote
John Constable
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? View quote
Benjamin Franklin
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. View quote
Jane Austen
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us. (Joseph Addison)
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away. View quote
William Wordsworth
O woman in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. View quote
Walter Scott
I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light. View quote
Edmund Waller
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe. View quote
Charlie Huston
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. View quote
John Quincy Adams
The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition - it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind - yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! View quote
William James
He [the artist in general] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of. (John Constable)
What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? View quote
Alexander Pope
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense? View quote
Henry James
Half light, half shade, She stood, a sight to make an old man young. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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