We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when…

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

— Mary Gauthier

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

— Desmond Morris

Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers…

— Garrett Hedlund

Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who…

— Mark Hoppus

“And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona.” “How is it?” “It is all still comic opera. First it was the paradise of the crackpots and…

— Ernest Hemingway

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

— John French Sloan

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out…

— Cornelia Funke

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

— Bob Dylan

“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”

— wallace stevens

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

— Rick Yancey

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

— Jonathan Stroud

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth…

— Giovanni Giocondo