(193 quotes found)
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.”
Walter de La Mare
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
P.T. Barnum
“The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
Langston Hughes
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have s”
William Butler Yeats
“More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.”
Cecil Beaton
“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!”
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