Daylight Quotes

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. (Washington Irving)
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. View quote
John Lennon
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. View quote
Václav Havel
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. View quote
Rene Magritte
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. View quote
Chinua Achebe
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. View quote
Thomas Cole
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. (Thomas Jefferson)
I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much. View quote
Eric Dickerson
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass. View quote
John Constable
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them-because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight! View quote
Philip Roth
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. View quote
David Letterman
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. View quote
Victor Borge
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. View quote
Thomas Moore
The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. View quote
Walter Bagehot
This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights. (Francis Bacon)
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. View quote
H. L. Mencken
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it. View quote
William H. Prescott
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight. View quote
Simon Hoggart