Coats Quotes
408 Coats quotes by 343 unique authors
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Rose: "I was testing dorm security. It sucks." Dimitri: "You must be freezing. Do you want my coat?" Rose: "I'm fine. What are you doing…
— Richelle Mead
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta…
— Beatrix Potter
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as…
— Catherine Fisher
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He pulled my coat off my shoulders, looked at it with distaste, hung it on the back of one of the chairs pushed in under…
— Charlaine Harris
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He grabbed for the coatrack that stood by the door, ripped the coats off it, and flung the door wide, the rack held above his…
— Cassandra Clare
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Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more…
— Lisi Harrison
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Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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the [coat] rack above his head like a javelin. On the other side of the door was Jace. He blinked. "Is that a coatrack?" Jordan…
— Cassandra Clare
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she…
— Lionel Shriver
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At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.
— John Marsden
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I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I…
— Lauren Oliver
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The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.
— Peter Grimwade
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His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
— Edith Wharton
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If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will…
— Mortimer Adler
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And then Mircea finally let me down, only to get his hands inside the coat and push me against the wall. “I’m dirty,” I protested.…
— Karen Chance
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There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With…
— Lauren Willig
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Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that…
— Julia Quinn
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Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Coats Quotes
343 authors contributed a total of 408 Coats Quotes, led by these top contributors: