Coats Quotes · Page 8

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

— Milton Berle

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

— Albert Brooks

“He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats.”

— George Saunders

Don't wear fur! Did you know, a single fur coat takes fifteen trees, just for the protest signs?

— Emo Philips

The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

— Honorius Augustodunensis

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

— Maureen Johnson

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

— John Updike

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my…

— Earl Browder

I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try…

— Jessica Simpson

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild,…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your…

— Vivienne Westwood

I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim,…

— Joanna Lumley

He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see…

— Rick Riordan

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of…

— Washington Irving

My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a…

— Michael Reagan

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You said, ‘I’m going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.’ I’ve hidden those words…

— Jeanette Winterson

Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we…

— Craig Childs

Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream…

— Sheridan Morley

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe…

— Anonymous

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one…

— Oliver Goldsmith

He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

— Jim Butcher

He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

— Lancelot Andrewes

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

— George Meyer

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of…

— Austin O'Malley

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best…

— John Burroughs

Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.

— George Carlin

Choose well or die. I don’t care which. Just don’t get blood on my coat.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

— Rachel Zoe

I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.

— Rick Riordan

A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant

— Seymour Hicks

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

— Belva Plain

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

— Marge Piercy

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

— Peter Grimwade

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

— Samuel Johnson

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees...

— Andrew of Crete