Quotes about Contrast

Oh, it's a fine life, the life of the gutter. It's real: it's warm: it's violent: you can feel it through the thickest skin: you can taste it and smell it without any training or any work. Not like Science and Literature and Classical Music and Philosophy and Art.

There is no physical gulf between the philosopher's class room and the bull ring; but the bull fighters do not come to the class room for all that.

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.