Porcelain Quotes

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Ezra Pound

Passion, White, Giving

Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Pat Conroy

Soul, Fantasy, Brighter

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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Henry Ward Beecher

Character, Color, Burned

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Eric G. Wilson

Rose, Decay

Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan

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Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Brandon Cox

Trust, People, Treats

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My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

George R. R. Martin

Ivory, Skins, Steel

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2132, Bantam

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Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

Heart, Silence, Trying

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She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Animal, Curves, Hands

Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

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It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Arundhati Roy

Life, Dream, Stories

FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Apr 26, 2017

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When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.

Fernando Pessoa

Suicide, Real, Gun

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Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

C.P. Cavafy

Love, Beautiful, Art

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Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

Freya Stark

Broken, Miracle, World

Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

David Levithan

Beautiful, Sadness, Clay

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

Education, Philosophy, War

John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned

Tyra Banks

Beautiful, Girl, Confidence

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Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

Alethea Kontis

Sunshine, Hair, Names

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The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

Heart, Trying, Doe

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Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

Tyra Banks

Inspiring, Beauty, Beautiful

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Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.

Eugene Mirman

Lonely, Sex, Mean

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...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.

Gregory Maguire

Wall, Might, Hanging On

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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dog, Book, Feet

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[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.

Warren MacKenzie

Simple, Museums, Egypt

Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

Agatha Christie

Mean, Mad, Water

Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.

Justus von Liebig

Art, Knowledge, Science

David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.2, Taylor & Francis

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You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

Linda Fiorentino

Kids, Want, Bathroom

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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