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Truth" is coloured by perception.
— Ellen Hopkins
Cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
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
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 charge laughing.
Into the hair-thin tints
of yellow dawn,
into the women-coloured twilight — E. E. Cummings
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
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
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
For my most gracious master still called me redhead, though my hair was already churchyard-coloured." And
— Leo Perutz
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
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, 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
The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare.
— G.K. Chesterton
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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
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
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
All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.
— Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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
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
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
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
The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured
— Joan Aiken
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
Science is a way of looking at the world without the rose-coloured glasses of ignorance!
— Dr Steven Bottomley