brocade quotes

That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend we never die.

- Philip Arthur Larkin
  Of religion.'Aubade'.

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 pray'rs, or miss a masquerade.

- Alexander Pope
  The Rape of the Lock, canto 2, l.105^8.