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
My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't… — Domenico Dolce 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
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
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
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
