“Love is a velvet prison.”
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“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
“I slowly strangle my enemies with a velvet glove.”
Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
Quoted in "Italienisch-ostafrika(1936-1941)" - Page 18 - by Stefan Plenk - 2008
“Who can not love, does not deserve prisoners.”
Original: (it) Chi non riesce ad amare, non merita prigionieri.
Source: prevale.net
“5878. You cannot make Velvet out of a Sow's Ear.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear.”
18 November 2008, According to Archived copy, 2015-07-06, yes, https://archive.is/20120908203416/http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, 8 September 2012, dmy-all http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html,
Interview to CNN, Revolution
“John Cale is fantastic, and he made the sound of the Velvet Underground.”
Jayne County, attributed without citation at About Cale, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/quote_others.html,
“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state”
I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Statement to the Senate (1814) He echoes here the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
Variant translation: A throne is only a bench covered with velvet...
“Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XXI Letters. Personal Records. Dated Notes.