Quotes About Cobweb

#1. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Nellie L. McClung

#3. Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?

George Eliot

#4. It was difficult for him to decide whether she was sincere, or performing her own character; her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

Robert Galbraith

#5. The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile - it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#6. I have fallen,
for your words.
They are like,
a gossamer cobweb,
I have been,
embroiled,
decoyed,
snared into!
Incapacitated.
I fail to escape.
I fail to liberate.
Your words,
didn't redeem,
made me a,
captive instead.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#7. These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Elizabeth Goudge

#8. I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance for ever.

Glenda Millard

#9. He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.
She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.
She was exquisite.

Jo Beverley

#10. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is no strain upon it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. The attic of your beautiful throat
is laced with owl and cobweb. Night sings north,
the need of winter. Look up and know
what will become of us is stars.

Linda France

#12. Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Anne Sexton

#13. I would show her I wasn't a bit of cobweb in the corner, something to be wiped or straightened, but a rival worth her notice. I would learn her ways and habits, and track her closely until I knew what she was and how to best her, and what precisely it would take to steal my good life back.

Paula McLain

#14. Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Henry Fox

#15. I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love.

LeAnne Mechelle

#16. Redhead
All over the house
Strands of copper hair
Like filaments from a cobweb
Collect.
If you and I
Were ever to part
For months, perhaps years,
I'd be combing out,
Brushing or picking up
Strands of significance,
Traces of you
In my life

John Geddes

#17. You're a little tall to play Ariel." said Moth.
"And you have way too many muscles," said Mustardseed.
"But you might be able to pull it off," Cobweb said, "if you can look really constipated.

Lisa Mantchev

#18. Fearless
the cobweb swings from the ceiling
Indolent Housewife
in Daisies
lain!

Emily Dickinson

#19. The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt

#20. Passion is a cobweb duster for the mind.

Amanda Mosher

#21. Yael was a cobweb version, composed of gaps and strings and fragile nothings.

Ryan Graudin

#22. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending.

Juliet Marillier

#25. Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

#26. I fear the line between myself and madness is as fine these days as a cobweb, and I have seen what it means when a soul crosses over into that dim and wretched place.

Geraldine Brooks

#27. Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Edward Abbey

#28. He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

Emily Bronte

#29. He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at the bottom of the sea ...

Anais Nin

#30. What can be salvaged from your life? A pain
that gently darkens over heart and brain,
a fairy's touch, a cobweb's weight of pain,
now makes me tremble at your right to live.

Robert Lowell

#31. I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

Catherine Fisher

#32. The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Ross Perot

#34. I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Augustus William Hare

#35. I am made of cobweb that tears at a touch. But you, Bess, have fiber like the great seines that seldom break no matter their burden,yet if they do they can be mended again and again.

Anya Seton