Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

There is a shadow on every page.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.