(148 quotes found)
“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
Dorothy Parker
“It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets”
Italian Proverb
“Even a sheet of paper has two sides”
Japanese Proverb
“A wet sheet and a flowing sea, / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast.”
Allan Cunningham
“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”
Harold Acton
“Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.”
Christopher Fry
“At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon.”
Federico Garcia Lorca
“The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.”
Joseph Smith
“The harlot's cry from street to street / Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.”
William Blake
“Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase”
Charles Caleb Colton