Silken Quotes

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! — Thomas Brooks

Sweetie, any man I have claim over wouldn't need another woman to fool around with. I'm all the woman he'd need, I said in a silken voice. — Dannika Dark

Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine, runs a joy with silken twine. — William Blake

His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight. — Sarah J. Maas

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem. — David Abram

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. — Berthold Auerbach

Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous blloons
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies — Oscar Wilde

Love is a hawk with velvet claws
love is a rock with heart and veins
love is a lion with satin jaws
love is a storm with silken reins — Kurt Vonnegut

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. — Sidney Sheldon

Next morning while imbibing his morning tea beneath his pink silken quilt Bernard decided he must marry Ethel with no more delay. — Daisy Ashford

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it in its essence. — Oscar Wilde

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge

Once spun,
The silken thread of all our aspirations
Remains intact,
It can never be broken. — Scott Hastie

He wanted to tie her to him in ways she'd never escape. But they'd be the most loving, silken ties in the world. — Maya Banks

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence. — Robert Bloch

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf. — Howard Gordon

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider's web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning. — E.B. White

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. — Voltaire

With six small diamonds for his eyes
He walks upon the summer skies,
Drawing from his silken blouse
The lacework of his dwelling house. — Robert P. T. Coffin

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. — John Milton

The other reason I like your hair down is that I've fantasized about having these silken tresses wrapped around my fist as I'm fucking you — Lorelei James

We cannot rein wild horses with silken braids. — John William Kaye

From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea. — Rafael Sabatini

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound. — William Cowper

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not. — Ralph Cudworth

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds. — Friedrich Schiller

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall

Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings — Silken Laumann

Coffee and chocolate are certainly wonderful, but they must forever carry tea's silken train, ever the bridesmaids and never the bride. — Paul F. Kortepeter

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life. — Silken Laumann

Loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round — Robert Frost

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below. — Voltaire