Black Stuff Gown

Famous quotes containing the words black, stuff and/or gown:

    “In night when colours all to black are cast,
    Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;
    The eye—a watch to inward senses placed,
    Not seeing, yet still having power of sight—
    Gives vain alarums to the inward sense”
    —Fulke Greville (1554–1628)

    ““The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)