satin quotes

There was a girl in our town, Silk an'satin was her gown, Silk an'satin, gold an' velvet, Guess her name, three times I've telled it.

-Anonymous
Quoted in  James Orchard Halliwell  The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842). The answer, of course, is'Ann'.

I am proud that I am an Australian, a daughter of the Southern Cross, a child of the mighty bush. I am thankful I am a peasant, a part of the bone and muscle of my nation, and earn my bread by the sweat of my brow, as man was meant to do. I rejoice I was not born a parasite, one of the blood-suckers who loll on velvet and satin, crushed from the proceeds of human sweat and blood and souls.

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.38.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Enough Rope,'The Satin Dress', stanza1.

When a heroine goes mad, she always goes into white satin.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Mr Puff.The Critic, act 3, sc.1.

What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming-out ball?

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  TheAge of Innocence, bk.1, ch.5.