Breeches Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole…
— George Canning
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is…
— Laurence Sterne
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I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't…
— Ruth Simmons
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
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To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or…
— William Booth
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place,…
— Charles Dickens
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Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
— Frances Hardinge
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Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that…
— Johanna Lindsey
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Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you.…
— Scott Lynch
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Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above— Oh,…
— Karen Hawkins
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What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.
— Gail Carriger
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in…
— William Ernest Henley
Who Wrote These Breeches Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Breeches Quotes as follows: