Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt
und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 37; translation from George Fenwick Jones Walther von der Vogelweide (New York: Twayne, 1968) p. 136.
Diu welt ist ûzen schoene wîz grüen unde rôt und innân swarzer varwe vinster sam der tôt.
— John Anderson (Australian politician) Australian politician, 11th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia 1956
Anderson sees red over 'watermelon' Greens, theage.com.au, Max Blenkin, September 7, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/06/1094322715096.html,
„Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels,
Someday I shall recount your latent births.“
— Arthur Rimbaud, buch Vowels
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes !
Voyelles http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Vowels.html (Vowels (1871)
— Giacomo Balla Italian artist 1871 - 1958
(Manuscript, 1914); as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 148
Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914
„Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.“
— Toni Morrison, buch The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines
„I wear black on the outside
'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.“
— Morrissey English singer 1959
From the 1987 song Unloveable, co-written with Johnny Marr.
From songs
„I’m not afraid of the darkness outside.
It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.“
— Shelagh Delaney English playwright 1938 - 2011
„As beautiful as Halle is on the outside, she's 10 times more beautiful on the inside.“
— Halle Berry American actress 1966
Rick Yune — reported in Amy Longsdorf (November 17, 2002) "Still flying, still down to earth - Nothing's been the same since Oscar night, except Halle Berry herself", The Record, p. E01.
About
„It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.“
— Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937
— Georges Seurat French painter 1859 - 1891
short notation, 1881: from 'Notes inedites de Seurat sur Delacroix', in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique', April 1922; as quoted by John Rewald, in Georges Seurat', a monograph https://ia800607.us.archive.org/23/items/georges00rewa/georges00rewa.pdf; Wittenborn and Compagny, New York, 1943. p. 6 - note 9
Seurat studied carefully the paintings of Eugene Delacroix, and wrote in 1881 about Delacroix's painting 'The Fanatics of Tangier' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_The_Fanatics_of_Tangier_-_WGA06195.jpg this notation
Quotes, 1881 - 1890
„Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.“
— Mark Twain, buch Following the Equator
Quelle: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
— Camille Pissarro French painter 1830 - 1903
Quote of Camille Pissarro, in a letter, Paris, 31 May, 1887, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 114
1880's
„Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.“
— Thomas Middleton, The Witch
The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. Compare: Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one"; Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare"; Dyce says, "There seems to be little doubt that ‘Macbeth’ is of an earlier date than ‘The Witch’".
„And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.“
— Edgar Allan Poe, buch The Masque of the Red Death
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1842).
„Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death“
— Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods
Quelle: Blue Bloods
„Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
This may be original with Groucho, but the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/category/jim-brewer/ mentions the earliest report found in a 1958 issue of Boy's Life magazine where it is attributed to Jim Brewer.
Misattributed
Variante: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Quelle: The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
