Doublets Of 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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. — Menander

Death comes to me again, a girl
in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling.
It's not so terrible she tells me,
not like you think, all darkness
and silence. There are windchimes
and the smell of lemons, some days
it rains, but more often the air is dry
and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase
built from hair and bone and listen
to the voices of the living. I like it,
she says, shaking the dust from her hair,
especially when they fight, and when they sing. — Dorianne Laux

It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire. — Lee S Shulman

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

Do they pay you by the hour or what? Norwood said to the monocled peanut face. — Charles Portis

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that. — Thia Megia

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. — Arthur Erickson

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone. — Anne Michaels

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going. — Joe Namath