Doublets Quotes & Sayings

Anne's lovers are phantom gentlemen, flitting by night with adulterous intent. They come and go by night, unchallenged. They skim over the river like midges, flicker against the dark, their doublets sewn with diamonds. The moon sees them , peering from her hood of bone, and Thames water reflects them, glimmering like fish, like pearls. — Hilary Mantel

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet wall to wall, American ladies five-foot tall in blue. Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind, had to get away to see what we could find. Hope the days that lie ahead, bring us back to where they've led, listen not to what's been said to you. Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express? Wouldn't you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express, they're taking me to Marrakesh. All aboard the train, all aboard the train ... — Graham Nash

I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds! — Beth Ditto

Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet
nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather. — William Shakespeare

Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose and doublets. — William Shakespeare

There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day. — Colson Whitehead

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. — Brian Eno

It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name. — M.F. Moonzajer

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle. — Michael Leunig