Brass Quotes

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

— Edmund Waller

“Talk about brass-monkey weather!”

— M.L. Stedman

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

— Herman Melville

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.

— Horace

“One time, that true brass thimble.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.”

— Douglas Clegg

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

— Richard Strauss

“If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?”

— Jeffrey Archer

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

— Horace

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

— Sandra Lee

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

— Charles Ives

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.

— Jeaniene Frost

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

— Horace

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.

— Richard Strauss

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

— William Shakespeare

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

— Chanakya

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco,…

— Patrick Gordon

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle…

— Mark Twain

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or…

— Anonymous

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you…

— Cornel West

I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with…

— Lance Archer

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its…

— Betty Smith

I like to hear the brass vibrate in the sound, not the reed. I like a dark sound, which is contrary to…

— Stan Getz

I've grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass…

— Trombone Shorty

Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,…

— Charles Lamb

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.…

— Martin Scorsese

There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge…

— Laurence Sterne

My favorite lineup is just a trio, because then every night you can improvise and change the repertoire. Keyboards and brass can…

— Rory Gallagher

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…

— Virginia Woolf

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle…

— Scott Turow

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong…

— Edward Albee

With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of…

— Jeremy Piven

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made…

— Richard Wright

Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very…

— Bill Moyers

The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate…

— John Henry Jowett

... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and…

— Francine Pascal

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than…

— Marina Warner

...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of…

— Arthur Rimbaud