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  ...especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour; of brightening into blue, or blanching into white, or breaking into green or gold. So we may be perpetually reminded of the indefinite hope that is in doubt itself; and when there is grey weather on our hills or grey hair on our heads perhaps they may still remind us of the morning.--"Daily News."
[Sidenote: _G.K. Chesteron_]
Silence is the unbearable repartee.   --"Charles Dickens."
[Sidenote: _G.K. Chesterton_]
For those who study the great art of lying in bed there is one emphatic caution to be added. Even for those who cannot do their work in bed (as, for example, the professional harpooners of whales), it is obvious that the indulgence must be very occasional. But that is not the caution I mean. The caution is this: if you do lie in bed, be sure you do it without any reason or justification at all. I do not speak, of course, of the...   Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Excerpt from The Bed-Book of Happiness · This quote is about silence · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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