Lace Quotes

• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

  Coco Chanel

  Fantasy, Imitation, Made

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• I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Sky, Design

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• What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

  Alexandra Ivy

  Struggle, Men, Lust

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.304, Zebra Books

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• There is lace in every living thing: the bare branches of winter, the patterns of clouds, the surface of water as it ripples in the breeze.... Even a wild dog's matted fur shows a lacy pattern if you look at it closely enough.

  Brunonia Barry

  Dog, Nature, Winter

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• I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

  Glenda Bailey

  Beautiful, Return, Sweetness

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• My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

  Rod Stewart

  My Love For You, Compliment, Elegance

  Song: You're in My Heart

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• Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

  Alice Cooper

  Giving, Alcohol, Drug

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• Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

  Zac Posen

  Beads, Has Beens

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• What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Rain, Fall

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• I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

  Nicole Trunfio

  Italian, Black, Quality

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• A poem is a spider web
  Spun with words of wonder,
  Woven lace held in place
  By whispers made of thunder.

  Charles Ghigna

  Woven, Spiders, Wonder

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• Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

  Etheridge Knight

  Love, Rocks, Wind

  Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, School, Reflection

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• Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the “still point.

  Brunonia Barry

  Reading, Looks, World

  Brunonia Barry (2009). “The Lace Reader”, p.29, HarperCollins UK

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• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Children, Grandmother, Color

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• The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

  John Green

  Light, Shadow, Needles

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• Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.

  Brad Goreski

  Sexy, Leather, Combination

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• I love attention, I'm very honest about it ... [but] if I wanna wear a pink dress or a lace dress or a kilt of whatever, it's like I'm not solely doing it for attention, I'm doing it first for myself because it gives me pleasure.

  Marc Jacobs

  Giving, Dresses, Attention

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• A SWEET disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  A winning wave (deserving note)
  In the tempestuous petticoat :
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
  I see a wild civility :
  Do more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Art, Winning

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

  Gail Carriger

  Believe, High Heels, Feet

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• I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

  Anne Rice

  Halloween, Heart, Rose

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.699, Ballantine Books

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• I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Thinking, Wind, Faces

  "Planet Of The Apes : Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". www.cinema.com.

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• In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that remain a mystery, the modern preference is for side-footed placement and so the dilemma of goalkeepers has changed from whether to take a guess at dive right or left to if they should dive at all. Or at least that ought to have been their reappraisal. Almunia was feted as the hero in Rome but had he and Doni stayed in the centre of their goal then the number of saves they made in the shoot-out would have been doubled.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• They got all the size over there, and the teams are really good, so, I think night after night you're just going to have to be ready to lace them up and be ready to play. The teams out there are really good.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Good Night, Sports, Team

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  Kate Chopin

  Literature, Matter, Painting

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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