Cloak Quotes

169 quotes by 141 authors

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law… — Robert Byrd
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and… — Willa Cather
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — Margaret Cho
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cloak of naivetÃ© was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done. — Mark Peters
Shame is pride's cloak. — William Blake
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true… — Bernard de Mandeville
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!ÃŠ It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for… — Miguel de Cervantes
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same… — Thomas S. Monson
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker — Miguel de Cervantes
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. — Irving Kaufman
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent… — Sun Tzu
This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for… — Ronald Reagan
Look, I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start in school plays. I still live with my folks who make me mow the… — Hayden Christensen
Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would… — John of Salisbury
I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; see… — Alexander B. Morrison

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