Coats Quotes

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Eye, Honor, Different

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.114, Random House

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• Shape your coat according to your cloth.

  Thomas Nashe

  Shapes, Vietnamese

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• The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

  Peter Maurin

  Poor, Closets

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• Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.

  S. Z. Sakall

  Needs, Mink Coats, Mink

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• There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Tragedy

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• The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

  Bill Vaughan

  Behaviour, Behavior, Manners

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• Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Holiness, Dignity

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.141

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Conceited, Self

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “Outre-mer and Drift-wood”

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• I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

  Fred Melamed

  Real, Moving, Character

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• "I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Hurt, Wrinkles

  "Les Miserables".

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• While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  "What We Can Learn From Animals" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedly long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  Otis Williams

  Winter, Names, Long

  Otis Williams (2002). “Temptations”, p.49, Cooper Square Press

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• In winter, some voices are like coats.

  Ahlam Mosteghanemi

  Winter, Voice

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• I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Shoes, Pants, Hats

  "Charlie Chaplin and the Tramp: the birth of a hero" by Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Girl, Food, Cooking

  Ludwig Bemelmans (1964). “La bonne table”

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Deep Thought

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  Walter Matthau

  Nice, White, Giving

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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, Silly, President

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

  John Updike

  Baby, Art, Shoes

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• Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Suffering, Meals

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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