Shadow quotes

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.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.