Garb Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar…
— Nikola Tesla
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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
— John Milton
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Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do…
— Lani Guinier
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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
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There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
— Livy
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
— Adam Clarke
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Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed…
— Juan Williams
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A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long…
— Isak Dinesen
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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes,…
— P. Chidambaram
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
— Albert Einstein
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Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
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Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked…
— Herman Melville
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Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
— William Hazlitt
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Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
— Josh Billings
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Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
— Juvenal
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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
— Hosea Ballou
Who Wrote These Garb Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 30 Garb Quotes, led by these top contributors: