Famous quotes containing the words white and/or silk:
“The man whose heart is as warm as a hanky soaked in ethyl chloride.”
—Edmund White (b. 1940)
“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)