“I don't have sleeves to carry handkerchiefs in,' said Damen. 'I wouldn't mind being given a knife.' 'Or a fork?' said Laurent.” — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
“In those days we saw every sort of object as though it were one of those tiny handkerchiefs from which a conjuror… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“He let his lips form a half-smile. ‘You aren’t going to offer me one of your gaudy Veretian handkerchiefs?’ ‘You could use… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
“Very good, Monique. Perfect as always. Next time, Sidheag, smaller handkerchief. A lady carries embroidered muslin, not-what on earth is that? A… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great… — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a… — Guus Kuijer Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.'… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved… — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image