Brocade Quotes

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. (Kakuzo Okakura)
Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw, Or stain her honour, or her new brocade, Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade. View quote
Alexander Pope
Splendid Things Chinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long flowering branches of beautifully coloured wistaria entwined about a pine tree. View quote
Sei Shōnagon
She walks among the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water- She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate. View quote
Nathalia Crane
I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade. View quote
Marc Jacobs
It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour. View quote
Girolamo Gigli