Silk Quotes

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Oscar de la Renta

Hands, Doe, Body

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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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An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

Danny Silk

Honor, Thrones, Restoration

Danny Silk (2009). “Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment”, p.79, Destiny Image Publishers

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When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

Audrey Hepburn

Beautiful, Scarves, Feels

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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

Al Stewart

Running, Rain, Expression

Song: The Year Of The Cat

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From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Rumi

Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Etheridge Knight

Love, Rocks, Wind

Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry, Dresses, Worms

1957 Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms,'Adagia'.

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And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

Feelings, Body, Might

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

Oriana Fallaci

True Power, Voice, Long

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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

Helen Gurley Brown

Real, Waiting, Wool

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Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Skins, Care, Scar

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.15, Penguin

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It's more difficult getting up early in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.

Eddie Arcaro

Funny, Morning, Humor

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Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

Carl Sandburg

Spring, Blue, Wind

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Joseph Stalin

Anger, Gloves, Revolution

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What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.

Theodora Goss

Stories, World, Turns

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Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

Alber Elbaz

New York, Husband, One Day

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Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Friedrich Schiller

Iron, Chains

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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.

Maya Angelou

Heart, Love Is, Wind

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.18, Random House

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The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Ears, Literature, Way

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By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

Martha Ostenso

Morning, Rain, Lakes

Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

William Allen White

Food, Cooking, Dawn

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

William Blake

Love, Air, Yew

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press

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No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

Joseph Stalin

Gloves, Revolution, Made

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I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Anne Rice

Halloween, Heart, Rose

Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.699, Ballantine Books

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