Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

— Martin Luther

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the…

— Honore de Balzac

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

— Saul Bellow

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought…

— Natasha Trethewey

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the…

— Elizabeth David

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

— Mark Twain

“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

— Alan Furst

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

— William Shakespeare

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful…

— George Washington

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many…

— Lynn Austin

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

— Brian Regan

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

— Phoebe Cary

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors…

— Honore de Balzac

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

— Johnny Hunt