Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or spectre:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)