“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen” — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.” — Joanna Ruocco Copy Share Image
LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned — Drake Copy Share Image
Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear. — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying… — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image
But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Personal sympathy has helped me on very much. My husband from first to last has watched every picture with delight, and it… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There's a fortune of Authentic Vintage French Linen Tea Towels on every clothes line. These are the exact kind of linens that… — Vivian Swift Copy Share Image
“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the… — Jay Rayner Copy Share Image
I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image