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Marble Quotes

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1853). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.62

Much rain wears the marble.

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson (1807). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3”, p.359

Forget thyself to marble.

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.412

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.309, Oxford University Press on Demand

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

John Lyly (1868). “Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Editio princeps, 1579. Euphues and his England. Editio princeps, 1580. Collated with early subsequent editions ... Carefully edited by Edward Arber”, p.81

Brighter than Parian marble.

Horace (1843). “The Odes of Horace, Translated by J. Scriven”, p.37

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.146, Sandesh S

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press