Top 36 Pale Fire Quotes
#2. The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon
#3. Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
Vladimir Nabokov
#4. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
William Shakespeare
#5. I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
Jonathan Galassi
#6. 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.
Domhnall Gleeson
#7. What is history if not one endless assault on love?
Casper Silk
#8. One of my favorite apps is VSCO, which is for editing photos. I think they have great filters. And then I read the New York Times.
Kiernan Shipka
#9. American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
Zach Galifianakis
#10. Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
Martha N. Beck
#11. I wouldn't change any part of my life that I've lived up until now. I kind of believe in fate a little bit and I believe that whether it be good or bad, everything is happening for a reason regardless of how good or how terrible it is.
Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
#12. Honestly, he'd said more perverted things to my face. To my boobs. Did he really think he was school-ing me in being sexy right now?
Really? You're completely unimpressed?
Zzzzzzzzzzz, I wrote back.
Christina Lauren
#13. Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansell. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.
Murray Walker
#14. One thing he shared with the singing bird was a love of rain and especially of storms. He always felt a deep thrill of awe when the pale sapphire cloaks of sky were flung aside and dark raging heavens roared and plunged and cast fire and water and ice upon the earth. Something
Jonathan Renshaw
#15. I've found her, she is how the story tells. Black hair, pale skin, perfect body. And her eyes, oh, her eyes! She hurts with her eyes. I saw her at the School. Two pink diamonds. It's she, I perceive the fire. I finally found the Maid of Flames.
Chiara Cilli
#16. When the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
Charles Dickens
#17. I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts
Brenda Strong
#18. Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.
Aeschylus
#19. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#20. Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
J.K. Rowling
#21. If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
J.M. Barrie
#22. I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Vladimir Nabokov
#23. Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes
#24. Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere,
William Shakespeare
#25. To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
Charles Horton Cooley
#26. Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow.
George R R Martin
#27. The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of the lily ponds, by the scented winds, and by the nearness of each other.
Pauline Gedge
#28. Zembla is a site devoted to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist.
Vladimir Nabokov
#29. There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!
Albert Sorel
#30. The cheeks of the sailors grew pale at the sight - and their eyes glistened with the gleam of the light - and the smoke in thick wreaths mounted higher and higher - Oh God it is fearful to perish by fire! Kunhardt
George Saunders
#32. while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one. I
Stephen King
#33. Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#34. The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
William Shakespeare
#35. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.
Bram Stoker
