“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.” HandsLightEyeNightBlackPiecesTearsWingsGood ThingsWoodsInvisibleAgentsPaleBloodyPreyCrowPitifulScarvesMacbeth PlayInvisible HandGreat Bond Author:William Shakespeare
“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.” HardBlackResultsPaintingRedWineBrownYellowPaleVaryDissatisfaction Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but its too much on me.” LooksEyeGirlBlackToo MuchRedLipsEveningPaleLipstickOther GirlRed LipsRed LipstickBlack Eyes Author:Saffron Aldridge
“Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.” TryingLooksEndsBlackRedSkinsExcitedColourLoyalBobPaleWigsRavensPlatinumPale Skin Author:Lily Cole
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.” ReasonFactsHandsFoundFatherBlackWhiteSentencesGrayConventionsOrgansPaleThreadContinuingFabricDeliberateArbitraryOur FatherRevisionStimulationConcluding Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.” FactsFatherBlackWhiteSentencesGrayConventionsPaleFabricOur Father Book:The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays Source: The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays
“My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.” SaidMotherBlackHairPaleInkLotusesComplexionBlack HairSquids Author:Diane Ackerman
“I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.” WayKindBlackWhiteAttentionDrawsBlueShirtsTiesPale Author:Charlie Siem