Coat Quotes

393 Coat quotes by 325 unique authors

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. — William Ralph Inge
A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear… — Winston Churchill
O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.... — John Burroughs
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. — Edwin Arnold
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof. — Marge Piercy
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song. — Charles Kuralt
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? — Mary Oliver
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive… — Evelyn Underhill
Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush. — Daniel Dennett
I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to… — Diana Ross
The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to… — Pierre Balmain
It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get… — E. J. Hughes
Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket. — David Letterman
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… — Rachel Carson
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked. — Giordano Bruno
Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat? — Bobby Gould
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver… — E. M. Forster
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. — Charles de Gaulle
I think bare legs in winter are idiotic. Unless your naked pins are toned, tanned and veinless, it's best to cover up. There is nothing… — Joan Collins
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You… — Sloane Crosley
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. — Charles Dickens
With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you… — Beth Ditto
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being… — Joseph Epstein
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. — Benjamin Harrison

Who Wrote These Coat Quotes

325 authors contributed a total of 393 Coat Quotes, led by these top contributors: