Quotes about Shades
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
— John Milton
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
— Samuel Johnson
Giants Big things. Things that buffet, bluster .....and defy domination. Dark things. Ominous shades that blight, blacken ....and blot out the Sun
— Charles Swindoll
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
— Graham Greene
Wherefore, all wise men have agreed that without our utmost care and diligence in the investigation of the truth, we must be contented to walk in the shades of ignorance and error.
— John Owen
we drove up to the three-shaded house
— Maya Angelou
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.
— Joseph Addison
It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
— Maya Angelou
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
— Victor Hugo
Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,—these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear.
— Victor Hugo
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes that comes to all.
— John Milton
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.
— Barack Obama