Quotes about Contrast
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
— Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
— Mark Twain
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
— Herman Melville
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
— GK Chesterton
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
— Ludwig Borne
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
— Victor Hugo
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
— John Lennon
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo