Famous quotes containing the words silver, needle and/or fashion:
“Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
“I would build my house of crystal,
With a solitary friend,
Where the cold cracks like a pistol
And the needle stands on end.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I see not much difference between ourselves & the Turks, save that we have foreskins and they none, that they have long dresses and we short, and that we talk much and they little. In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, sodomy and smoking.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)