Coat Quotes
393 quotes by 339 authors
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry…
— Russell Baker
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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
— Clara Barton
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
— Robert Benchley
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
— Albert Brooks
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight,…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients…
— Tracy Chapman
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for…
— Hillary Clinton
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for…
— Dorothy Allison
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax…
— Harold Wilson
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
— Austin Phelps
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat…
— James F. Cooper
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
— John Stuart Mill
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him…
— Clarence Budington Kelland
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
— Al McGuire
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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Coat Quotes
339 authors contributed a total of 393 Coat Quotes, led by these top contributors: