Robes Quotes

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

— Francis Beaumont

“Gratitude for such favor stands dressed in robes of wonder.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“You will lie with me in my buffalo robes?”

— Catherine Anderson

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

— Mason Cooley

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

— Rudyard Kipling

Those clouds are angels' robes.

— Charles Kingsley

The robes of lawyers are lined with the obstinacy of clients

— Proverb

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

— Tammy Bruce

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath…

— Lauren Child

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

— Sri Aurobindo

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

— Tim McGraw

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

— Rumi

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

— Charles Spurgeon

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a…

— William Butler Yeats

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in…

— Jude Law

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering…

— Virginia Woolf

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with…

— Robin McKinley

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the…

— Richard Paul Evans

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the…

— Robert Burns

We're going to serve in eternity. We're not going to sit around on clouds; you know this whole idea of heaven is…

— Rick Warren

Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the…

— Stephen Batchelor

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose…

— Robert Montgomery

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The…

— Burton Rascoe

He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He…

— Alison Goodman

The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,…

— Janet Malcolm

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held…

— Pico Iyer

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best…

— Anonymous

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping…

— Jonathan Edwards

Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and…

— Frederick Lenz

Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own.…

— Janet Morris

“They stood and pulled off their robes, facing each other, and underneath both were wearing jeans and sweaters, there being a nip…

— Mohsin Hamid

The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like…

— Rick Riordan

I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying.…

— Doris Lessing

Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back…

— Rumi

When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars…

— Joseph Rodman Drake

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his…

— Charles Dickens

In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a…

— Charles Churchill