Quotes About Velvet

I fell asleep in the deep velvet of this wood; I dreamt divine things.

The man had a smooth voice, like velvet. "I'm Detective Inspector Me. Unusual name, I know. My family were incredibly narcissistic. I'm lucky I escaped with any degree of humility at all, to be honest, but then I've always managed to exceed expectations.

At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster.

Once in the night she wakened and a flood of desolation poured over her. But in the darkness she heard a melodious purring and felt the beautiful touch of a velvet cat.

This is an uglynasty Momside. She bought a book about it. Tough love. Sour sugar. Barbed velvet. Silent talk.

As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

A little further away, between two matrons, sat Emiel Regis. He was dressed in a black, velvet jacket, looking like a vampire.

The stars were so thick in the sky that she could not even begin to find the most elementary constellations. They were like a million glistening grains of sugar on a black velvet cloth, and the waning moon shone like a Saracen's blade.

He's got a laugh like a machine gun firing through velvet.

He was married once, but it was so long ago that he forgot about it. Before the war, his wife ran away with an actor, having fallen for his velvet jacket and lace cuffs.

The dark purr of his voice was almost soothing.

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon... I was a man of the Renaissance that evening - of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube... You'll fall in love, I said. Oh, pray not.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d'Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.

early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark,The beggars are coming to town;Some in rags, some in tags,And some in velvet gowns.

That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities - even merely with the velvet. He added: 'Your mother works you very hard.

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.

Redd's lact of knowledge astounded the tutor. Did she really understand so little about how a Wonderland princess became queen? She doesn't know what she doesn't know, he mumbled, and then: Your Imperial Viciousness, perhpas we should speak face-to-face, without this velvet barrier between us. Are you decent? I'm never decent!

As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb.

Fred was afraid of the night, afraid his body would slip away from him, dissolve in that purple velvet with diamond eyes, the tropical night. The tropical night did not lie inert, like a painted movie backdrop, but was filled with whisperings, and seemed to have arms like the foliage. Beauty was a drug. The small beach shone like mercury at their feet.

Here in the city she had gilded her nails. They shone. And she had put on a velvet dress, this soft red one, which was heavy. The buttons were in the form of seashells.