Daylight Quotes - Page 2
Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1
Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.181
Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.101, Reprint Services Corporation
Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.108, Broadway Books
Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.125, Penguin
Quoted in Daniel Farson Sacred Monsters,'Rousting in Dublin' (1988).
John Constable (1964). “Correspondence”
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1933, Delphi Classics
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.143, Heinemann
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.102, Psychology Press
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
Guy de Maupassant (1989). “The dark side of Guy de Maupassant”
George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.186
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.15, e-artnow