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Shade Quotes - Page 2

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

A hunter of shadows, himself a shade.

"Odyssey". Poem by Homer, XI,

But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.481, Ballantine Books

Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

"Fictional character: Charlie Chan". "Docks of New Orleans", www.imdb.com. 1948.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin