White Gown Quotes

• Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

  Epictetus

  Purple, White, Long

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• Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

  Mason Cooley

  Reality, Garden, White

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• She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Eye, Heart

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• The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Girl, Kissing, Men

  J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.96, Vintage

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• Thankfully,two old friends stood next to the throne. Horus wore full battle armor and a khopesh sword at his side.is kohl-lined eyes-one gold, one silver-were as piercing as ever. At his side stood Isis in a shimmering white gown, with wings of light. "Welcome," Horus said. "Um, hi," I said. "He has a way with words," Isis muttered, which made Sadie snort.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Light, Isis

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• Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

  Tony Benn

  White, Gowns, Would Be

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