Silver (color)

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling that is a representation of the color of polished silver.

Quotes

 * Every cloud has a silver lining.
 * Anonymous English proverb, probably derived from lines of John Milton, in Comus (1637), quoted below.

 I did not err; there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
 * Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
 * John Milton, Comus (1637), line 221 - 223


 * You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.
 * David O. Russell, in lines for "Pat Solitano" in the film Silver Linings Playbook  (2012) based on the novel The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick.


 * There's the silver lining I've been looking for.
 * J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), Ch. 7: The Will of Albus Dumbledore
 * Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley in: The Poems of Shelley: Volume Three: 1819 - 1820'To a Skylark', stanza 25, Routledge, 22 May 2014, p. 473


 * It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
 * Bruce Sterling in: Literacy, technology, and society: confronting the issues, Prentice Hall, 1997, p. 498


 * Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon.
 * Tennyson, in: Charlotte Fiske Bates The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1882, p. 578


 * I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon.
 * William Butler Yeats, in "The Song Of Wandering Aengus", in The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)