Coloured Quotes

Truth" is coloured by perception. — Ellen Hopkins

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. — Oscar Wilde

Cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother. — William Golding

Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured! — Kenneth Grahame

I have not forgotten that you can see the world through pieces of coloured glass. — R. K. Laxman

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. — Stanislaw Lem

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. — Mika.

I charge laughing.
Into the hair-thin tints
of yellow dawn,
into the women-coloured twilight — E. E. Cummings

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates

She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation. — William Dobell

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. — Kenneth Grahame

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. — Mikhail Botvinnik

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money — Mervyn Peake

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader. — Robertson Davies

I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war. — Simon Armitage

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights. — Rabindranath Tagore

Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance! — Dr Steven Bottomley

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion. — Matt Smith

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta. — Mini Grey

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. — Richard Dawkins

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight. — Joanne Harris

a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper. — Hugh Laurie

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since — Josephine Hart

Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. — Francis Of Assisi

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. — Rebecca West

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. — Bennett Cerf

There seemed to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance. — Oscar Wilde

Robina Fairfax's mouth opened in a smile which revealed teeth that could only have been her own, so variously coloured and oddly shaped were they. — Barbara Pym

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face. — Jourdan Dunn

As a rule, ladies of the Royal Family wear light coloured clothes because such colours are more discernible against a great crowd. — Norman Hartnell

Education than most coloured folks. When she squinted — Harper Lee

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks. — Daniel Radcliffe

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain. — Adam Nicolson

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. — Qiu Xiaolong

Open, oh coloured world, without weight, without shore. You are second and better; this was first and feeble. — C.S. Lewis

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses. — Audrey Hepburn

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy

concept: me, sailing through the milky way with many-coloured stars caught in my hair. there's no pain up here, only laughter and peace — L.J. Buchanan

But I think I'm coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood. — Virginia Woolf

but the priest's vestments are parti-coloured, and both the work and colours are wonderful. — Thomas More

Who ever told you a Chinaman was a coloured man? — Kurt Vonnegut

The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils. — Lauren Oliver

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses. — Mark E. Smith

All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return. — Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured — Joan Aiken

A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette. — James Elkins

The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare. — G.K. Chesterton

For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also. — J.M. Barrie

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. — G.K. Chesterton

For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured." And — Leo Perutz

I am really terrible when it comes to guys. Inside, I just see myself as this overweight tomboy with funny-coloured hair and bad skin. — Katie McGrath

All humans are coloured. Or else you wouldn't be able to see them. — Loesje

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement. — Ben Okri

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue. — Carol Ann Duffy

Kayla snatched the ruby-coloured bra he'd dug out from behind his back. "You should know, you're the one who got it off me," she said. — Meg Cabot

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive ... — David Gray

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality. — Margaret Mitchell

In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny coloured lights, like the tears I saw glistening in my brother's eyes. — V.C. Andrews