Linen Quotes

• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Husband, Flirting

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

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• Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Best Love, Love Is, Changed

  'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5

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• Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

  Akshay Kumar

  Looks, Trendy

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• Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

  Bill Paxton

  Aliens, Aliens Movie

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• It's time to stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wwe

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• Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Yesterday, Thankfulness

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.221, Lulu.com

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• This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you.

  Franny Billingsley

  Memories, Knowing, People

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.164, A&C Black

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• Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

  Elton John

  Dancer, Today, Tiny

  Song: Tiny Dancer

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• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Waste, Hemp

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

  Nate Berkus

  Color, House, Rooms

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Smell, Feelings

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• I shall lie folded like a saint,
  Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
  On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
  Narrow and cold and neat.

  Elinor Wylie

  Lying, Blue, Saint

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.

  David Nicholls

  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

  Gustave Flaubert

  White, Criticism, Fleas

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• Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Light, Jewels

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• My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work.

  Domenico Dolce

  Summer, Thinking, Light

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• The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, Luxury, Glasses

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.106

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• Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Black And White, Hands, Office

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.392, Bantam

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• Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

  Charles Dickens

  Purple, Rags, Doe

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Black, Calling, Pieces

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

  Perry Brass

  People, Fake, World

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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