Lots of shy people
Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It’s just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me. Eva Green
Armour
An artist feels vulnerable
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. Eric Maisel
So furiously each other
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to … Read more
Said the Sun to
Said the Sun to the Moon-‘When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one Edith … Read more
The armour of falsehood
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul. E. M. Forster
God can never entrust
God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself. Francis Frangipane
If you envy me
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I … Read more
Boasting, like gilded armour,
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. Diogenes
I dislike the idea
I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone’s neck. It needs to be something else – and there is something extremely magical about armour. Daphne Guinness
As I got older
As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour Daphne Guinness