
“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
Björn of Brekkukot
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
“Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.”
Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.
II, line 63.
Satires, Satire II
Babe Cristabel, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
the poet at the Ölfus River
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell
“Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.””
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 42 (p. 580)