Silk and Steel may refer to:
- Silk and Steel (Giuffria album)
- Silk and Steel (Five Star album)
- A type of guitar string made by several manufacturers for acoustic steel string guitars. They are overwound steel strings with silk filaments running under the winding.
Famous quotes containing the words silk and, silk and/or steel:
“Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin gear;
Crouch upon a stone,
Wrapping that foul body up
In as foul a rag....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“‘Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream
That can entame my spirits to your worship.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It’s as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)