Brass Quotes
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People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
— William Shakespeare
Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
— Jason Calacanis
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
— Edmund Waller
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
— Lester Bowie
she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.
— P.L. Travers
Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is.
— C.S. Lewis
There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.
— Melanie Griffith
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
— Horace
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
— Richard Strauss
Talk about brass-monkey weather!
— M.L. Stedman
If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?
— Jeffrey Archer
I don't think Garbo with her clothes off, panting in a brass bed, would have been more sexy than she was.
— Mary Astor
strings, piano and brass she often
— Stuart Johnstone
One time, that true brass thimble.
— Sue Monk Kidd
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.
— Gay Talese
The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.
— John Edward Williams
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'.
— Howard Frank Mosher
the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs,
— Gustave Flaubert
Sing, of delight drink deep,Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the House of the Lord than mingle with the top brass in the tents of the wicked.
— Hugh Nibley
Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.
— Perry Brass
Be reckless in your intensities.
— Perry Brass
If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.
— Jeaniene Frost
He shows the most amazing brass neck," she said.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
— Thomas Hood
The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.
— Janet Evanovich
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
— Perry Brass
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.
— Dan Quayle
Ordinarily Robie would police his brass. But he was chambering dum-dum rounds tonight, so most likely they would stay inside her.
— David Baldacci
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.
— Perry Brass
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
— William Drummond
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
— Richard Strauss
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
— Nate Berkus
thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
— Joseph Smith Jr.
Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.
— Perry Brass
Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.
— Theodore Levitt
Ah, you mean the thing with the brass plate on it saying 'Improved Manicure Device,' Archchancellor?
— Terry Pratchett
I'm not saying it's cold but that brass monkey over there is looking really worried.
— Glenn Scrimshaw
To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.
— Louis Armand De Lom D'Arce Lahontan
There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.
— Perry Brass
I was ready to approach her with my English charm, when her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm.
— Elton John
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
— John Cotton
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
— Herman Melville
Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
— Harold Holzer
Success has a million musical nuances. Failure is only the monotonous banging of a brass gong.
— Robert Goolrick
That one has more brass than an orchestra and more nerve than a sore tooth. So I sincerely doubt I make her nervous.
— Anne Bishop
Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie
— Alexander McCall Smith
Have hot, wild sex with a friend. Then go out and do something stupid, like bowl, afterwards.
— Perry Brass
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!
— Rudyard Kipling
Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.
— Perry Brass
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band,
— A Meredith Walters
The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.
— Perry Brass
It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.
— Julie Andrews
It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.
— Raymond Chandler
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
— Vitruvius
A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
— Charles Dickens
When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.
— Trombone Shorty
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy ... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
— Franz Schubert
brass door handle off the nearest door and threw it
— Richard Roberts
And a true brass thimble. Mauma said the thimble would be mine one day. When she wasn't using it, I wore it on my fingertip like a jewel.
— Sue Monk Kidd
He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.
— Douglas Clegg
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots. — Ovid
Brass, stay down all summer.
— Eugene Ormandy
Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.
— William Watson
