Quotes about Contrast

I must dispel vanity with vanity.

They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.

It is the grace of Christ, and not the virtue of man, which can and does bring it about that through fervor of spirit frail flesh learns to love and to gain what it naturally hates and shuns.

Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy

How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with loose women among treasure sacks in the holds of pirate ships?...

The tower of Westminster Cathedral rose in front of her, the habitation of God. In the midst of the traffic, there was the habitation of God.

The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.