Quotes with velvet

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• A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

  Brad Holland
  American basketball player (1956 - )
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• Iron hand in a velvet glove.

  Charles V
  Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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• Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• brutalization
• commercial
• probably
• painting
• drifting
• terrible

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