For for the metal, see Silver.

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray 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.

• Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
  Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
  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.
  • 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)

See also

• Black
• Red

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Silver (color) on Wikipedia
• Media related to Silver (color) on Wikimedia Commons