These satin quotes will inspire you. A satin weave is a type of fabric weave that produces a characteristically glossy, smooth, or lustrous material, typically with a glossy top surface and a dull back.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging satin quotes, satin sayings, and satin proverbs.
Best Satin Quotes
- “This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It’s not so much the comfort itself as knowing there’s someone who wants to take care of you.” ~ Franny Billingsley
- “What was the point in satin and lace if it didn’t make a man struggle to speak?” ~ Alexandra Ivy
- “The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears…otherwise.” ~ Sarah MacLean
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“Where’s the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.” ~ George Herbert
- “Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.” ~ Angela Carter
- “Nights in white satin never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written never meaning to send
Beauty I’d always missed with these eyes before
Just what the truth is I can’t say any more
Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you” ~ Justin Hayward -
“A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.” ~ Duke Ellington
- “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me,
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.” ~ Jenny Joseph - “I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.” ~ Bette Davis
- “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.” ~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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“Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.” ~ Jethro Tull
- “Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you’re one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off” ~ Augusten Burroughs
- “Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin… Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.” ~ Rumi
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“No human being should wear tight satin.” ~ Michael Kors
- “I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.” ~ Jean Paul Gaultier
- “Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.” ~ Wendelin Van Draanen
- “I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South” ~ Lord Byron
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“I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.” ~ Daphne du Maurier
- “His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood and ashes and salt, but it didn’t matter; the world, the city, and all it’s lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “What exists beneath the sea?I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn’t float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.” ~ Kelly Easton , Black satin quotes
- “And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.” ~ Edgar Degas
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“Pour me another tequila, I’m going to put on your red satin dress. You put on my clothes.” ~ Bobby Bare
- “Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.” ~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
- “Don’t date a woman with satin sheets on her bed (she didn’t put them there just for you).” ~ Vantile Whitfield
- “O Lord, Sir – when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“Every imperfection you have as a man makes a sound as it knifes through satin sheets.” ~ Jay Mohr
- “He’s just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.” ~ Alexandra Bracken
- “Ser Jaime?” Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman.”I am grateful, but…you were well away. Why come back?” A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. “I dreamed of you,” he said.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “I started designing my handbags in my apartment and I had six samples made in satin-finished nylon. I displayed them at trade shows but they went unnoticed at first.” ~ Kate Spade
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“love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.” ~ William Maxwell
- “Love is like a butterfly
As soft and gentle as a sigh
The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
Love makes your heart feel strange inside
It flutters like soft wings in flight
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.” ~ Dolly Parton - “A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.” ~ Gertrude Stein
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“Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know you’ve shed over holding your mother’s piece of satin. The tears you’ve shed over each loss you’ve experienced. But it also represents the tears we’ve both shed as we’ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears I’ve shed over the fact I’ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you I’m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush” ~ Abbi Glines
- “For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn’t want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.” ~ Alice-Leone Moats
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“Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.” ~ Gena Showalter
- “When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I’m in the favela I have the impression that I’m a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.” ~ Carolina Maria de Jesus
- “His thumb went back and forth over the satin, as if he were rubbing her hip as he had when they’d been together, and he moved his leg over so that it was on top of the skirting. It wasn’t the same, though. There was no body underneath, and the fabric smelled like lemons, not her skin. And he was, after all, alone in this room that was not theirs. “God, I miss you,” he said in a voice that cracked. “Every night. Every day.” ~ J.R. Ward
- “Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I’d look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.” ~ Yusef Komunyakaa
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“No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I’m not allowed out in daylight hours.” ~ Jimmy Page
- “I am essence of Rose Solitude
my cheeks are laced with cognac
my hips sealed with five satin nails
I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
flames
between the musk of fat
and the side pocket of my mink tongue.” ~ Jayne Cortez - “An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls – even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls – without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
- “I must confess the language of symbols is to me
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch’d and piebald languages:
‘T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.” ~ Sir Richard Phillips -
“Roarke’s brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve’s body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.” ~ Nora Roberts
- “The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.” ~ Emily Henderson”Home, Ms. Lane?” His deep voice was gently amused. “I have to call it something,” I said morosely. “They say home is where the heart is. I think mine’s satin-lined and six feet under.” ~ Karen Marie Moning
- “If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I’m obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin – will it match my dress? That’s when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.” ~ Kris Carr
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“I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women’s pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven’t tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.” ~ Jarvis Cocker
- “Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfurl. Fully extended , they would have filled the entire kitchen , but Daniel reined them in, close to his body. They shimmered and glowed and looked altogether too beautiful. Luce reached out and touched them with both hands. Warm and satin smooth on the outside, but inside, full of power. She could feel it coursing through Daniel, into her. She felt so close to him, understood him completely—As If they had become one.” ~ Lauren Kate
- “I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card – the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.” ~ Jamaica Kincaid
- “Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie’s mixtape” ~ Stephen Chbosky
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“I don’t think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don’t wear it just because I think I have to. I’m a very flamboyant person.” ~ Rod Stewart
- “When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it’s the first time I ever cursed at my mother.” ~ Mickey Rourke
- “It looks as though your shop is doing well,” Luka said gazing around, “Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?” My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I had to stare down at Azarte for a minute, petting him hard. Naturally Luka had a “lady friend.” She was probably nobly born: the daughter of a count or a duke. I imagined her having thick dark hair and clear skin, and was bitterly jealous. “Of course,” I stammered after a time. “What would she like? A gown? A sash?” If she came in for a fitting, I decided to “accidentlly” poke her with every pin.” ~ Jessica Day George
- “To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.” ~ George Eliot
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“Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes – that’s man’s work, let me tell you.” ~ Rod Stewart
- “Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn’t expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.” ~ Melissa de la Cruz
- “So before we end
And then begin
We’ll drink a toast to how it’s been
A few more hours to be complete
A few more nights on satin sheets
A few more times that I can say,
I’ve loved these days.” ~ Billy Joel -
“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” ~ Billie Holiday
- “The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you’re at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, … there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.” ~ Caitlin Moran
- “The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are you kidding me “Why?” had caused her to shrug. “I’d name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they’d become Mamma’s boots.” ~ Gena Showalter
