ivory quotes

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow?How could I possibly jointhemontothe littlebit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

-Jane Austen
  Letter to  J Edward  Austen,16 Dec.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

-John Edward Masefield
  'Cargoes'.

   Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

- Marge Piercy
  Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

When they come downstairs from their IvoryTowers, Idealists are veryapt to walk straight into the gutter.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Other People'.