The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living ...heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love a...nd Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of ...love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and colour. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much (...and perhaps the best) of my writing is verbal painting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Circumstances ... give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour and discriminating effect. The circumstan...ces are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as th...e blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »