Damask Rose Quotes & Sayings

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?" — Viola Davis

But how true it is that every pleasure has also its reverse side, in brief, its pain. Or, if not wholly true, how nearly so. Therefore, I have added to most of my pleasures the little flavour of bitterness, the flaw in their perfection, the canker in the damask, the worm at the root, the fear of loss, or of satiety, the fearful risks involved in their very existence, which tang their sweetness, and mind us of their mortality and of our own, and that nothing in this world is perfect. — Rose Macaulay

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there. — Marnie Stern

Inside, there was a bed, and upon the bed there was a woman. More beautiful was she even than the damask rose while her scent, drifting through the open window, was that of the night dew. Her hair was silken as the raven's wing. Quite naked, she lay, so still upon the bed, her eyes closed in reverie.

The young man looked first upon her breasts, where her hand rested. And upon each breast, there was a rosebud nipple. Upon each nipple there was a tip most tender. Upon each tip there was a milky drop.

Chin lifted, lips parted, she milked her maiden breast.

'What I would give to suckle at that teat,' thought he.

from 'Against Faithlessness' in Cautionary Tales — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Carnal love is the love of table, not of the host. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ... — William Shakespeare

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from. — Josh Billings

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game. — Gordon Taylor

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan. — Neil Young

I owe one thing to my public - the best performance I can give. — Johnny Carson

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. — Ambrose Bierce

Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths. — Nathaniel Hawthorne