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158 Garment quotes by 132 unique authors

This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the… — William Wordsworth
Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if… — Rick Riordan
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him… — Martine Leavitt
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. — Anne Carson
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings… — Khalil Gibran
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… — Roland Barthes
youth is a marvelous garment — Iris Murdoch
Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could… — Dean Koontz
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan.… — Michael Chabon
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the… — Jack Vance
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the… — Ray Bradbury
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall… — Khalil Gibran
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that… — Kate Chopin
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names… — Tariq Ramadan
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. — Khalil Gibran
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by… — Larry McMurtry
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish… — Victoria Alexander
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. — Khalil Gibran
Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While… — Ilona Andrews
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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