Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

Bryan Ferry

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

Bill Vaughan

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

William Shakespeare

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

Antoine Rivarol

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

Walter Mare

Three jolly gentlemen, / In coats of red, / Rode their horses / Up to bed.

Orhan Pamuk

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

People see me in there working and they take off their coats and start to help.

Gretchen Rubin

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

There's nothing of the Old West in those places, and you see lots of fur coats and Rolls-Royces.

Christopher Hitchens

One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

Glenda Jackson

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

Erica Jong

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

Pierre Trudeau

I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.

Katherine Anne Porter

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Giordano Bruno

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

Milla Jovovich

I love all the cableknits and the oversize coats.

Milla Jovovich

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Joseph Addison

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Elizabeth Smart

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

Wale

I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.

Terry Tempest Williams

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

Ryan Adams

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

Rumer Willis

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.