Shade Quotes

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight, From Life's glad morning to its solemn night; Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show There's light above me by the shade I throw.

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.

Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability. Marsala is a subtly seductive shade, one that draws us in to its embracing warmth.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.

Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

One is but a shade of the other.

Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.

In every picture there should be shade as well as light.

My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?