Logo
She is like a revolving light-house—pitch darkness alternati

She is like a revolving light-house—pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy. – Henry James, “Washington Square,” 1880 [Doctor Sloper. —tεᖇ&#55

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Lighthouses
category

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea. – John Ajvide Lindqvist, Harbor, 2008, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Del

Category:
Lighthouses

At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark. – Japanese proverb, quoted in Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths

Category:
Lighthouses

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. – Immanuel Kant

Category:
Lighthouses

Presently a light breeze sprang up, rolling the fog before it, and then dying away, leaving the lighthouse enshrouded…. The two great fog-bells of the lighthouse were therefore set agoing, and they rang out their slow deep-toned peal all that day and all that night… – R.M. Ballantyne, The Lighthouse: Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man an

Category:
Lighthouses

Random Quotes

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go. – Anne Burrell

Category:
Food

Vegas was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. Im still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. Ill always be sad about that. – Josh Duhamel

Category:
sad

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. – Will Rogers

Category:
Money

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant

Category:
Gentlemen