Pale Quotes

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.

I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started going as pale as I possibly could.

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.

I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who's really saying Donald Trump, you're out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic.

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election