“The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints not of woe”
Thomas Gray
“But check that you're not looking at the place through rose-tinted spectacles. An unusual property could need an unusual level of care: old schoolhouses, for instance, might have huge windows, or old churches could have valuable glass that needs maintaining.”
Paul Fincham
“When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint”
Lewis Carroll
“It was just pounding and shattered up the tint on the outside of it.”
Carol Tremaine
“Everyone looks back with rose-tinted spectacles, and think that if I got back involved it would all be rosy again. That's not the case.”
Martin Johnson
“The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
Henry David Thoreau
