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Daylight Quotes - Page 2

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.181

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.101, Reprint Services Corporation

We're burnin' daylight!

"Fictional character: Wil Andersen". "The Cowboys", www.imdb.com. January 13, 1972.

It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.

Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.125, Penguin

I am a daylight atheist.

Quoted in Daniel Farson Sacred Monsters,'Rousting in Dublin' (1988).

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

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”

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