amber quotes

He was an unzipped fly caught in forever amber.

- Richard Condon
  The Ecstasy Business, ch.1.

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

- Michael Drayton
  England's Heroic Epistles,'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine'.

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 4, l.123^4.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the Devil they got there.

- Alexander Pope
  'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.169^72.