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True Colors Quotes

A gust of wind snatched at her hat. She jumped from the wall and her skirts blew everywhere. I couldn't avoid glimpsing more than she intended, and I feared that she might have been embarrassed. Instead she laughed and said, "You're seeing my true colors," and I was the one who blushed.
- Frank Delaney

Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
- Wyndham Lewis

A lot of the American press at the time was saying 'just watch what happens when Bertelsmann tries to buy EMI, that will be a moment of truth that will show the Commission's true colors.' Well, that deal never happened either.
- Mario Monti

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.
- Dolly Parton

Wine is a dangerous thing, and should not be made the exponent of truth, let the truth be good as it may; but it has the merit of forcing a man to show his true colors.
- Anthony Trollope

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