Satin Quotes

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  You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

  Billie Holiday

  Hair, White, Black History

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

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• A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

  Duke Ellington

  Beauty, Dolls

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• What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

  Alexandra Ivy

  Struggle, Men, Lust

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.304, Zebra Books

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• Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Heart, Men

  "Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words".

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• Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.

  George Herbert

  Fire, Chimneys

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.

  Sarah MacLean

  Beautiful, Believe, Differences

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• Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

  Angela Carter

  White, Rose, Moonlight

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• Nights in white satin never reaching the end
  Letters I've written never meaning to send
  Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
  Just what the truth is I can't say any more
  Cause I love you
  Yes I love you
  Oh how I love you

  Justin Hayward

  Song, Love You, Eye

  Song: Nights In White Satin

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• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Perseverance, Chinese

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Purple

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

  Bette Davis

  Sex, Thinking, Two

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• Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

  Jethro Tull

  Sea, Forever, Skins

  Song: Budapest

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• Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Clothes, Gowns

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• Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, Creativity, Light

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• Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

  Rumi

  Shining, Joy, Skins

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• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Children, Grandmother, Color

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• Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Life, People, Inspire

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No human being should wear tight satin.

  Michael Kors

  Should, Humans, Human Beings

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2012

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• I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Sound, Language

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.350, Routledge

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• Pour me another tequila, I'm going to put on your red satin dress. You put on my clothes.

  Bobby Bare

  Clothes, Dresses, Red

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• His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn't matter; the world, the city, and all it's lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.

  Cassandra Clare

  Peace, Heart, Light

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't date a woman with satin sheets on her bed (she didn't put them there just for you).

  Vantile Whitfield

  Bed, Sheets

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Vulgarity Is, Obvious, Vulgar

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• She wore blue velvet
  Bluer than velvet was the night
  Softer than satin was the light
  From the stars
  She wore blue velvet
  Bluer than velvet were her eyes
  Warmer than May her tender sighs

  Bernie Wayne

  Song, Stars, Eye

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