Never underestimate the power of a scented candle!" declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia! - Alice Pung
Stamp-collectors are a strange, silent fish-like breed, of all ages, but only of the male sex; women, apparently, fail to see the peculiar charm of gumming bits of coloured paper into albums. - George Orwell
Small and fat and constantly facetious, straw- coloured and destitute of marks, he would have been practically indistinguishable hadn't his constant preference for light-grey clothes, for white hats, for very big cigars and very little stories, done what it could for his identity. - Henry James
Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement. - Ben Okri
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. - C.S. Lewis
The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain. - Adam Nicolson
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. - Qiu Xiaolong