Gloves Quotes

220 Gloves quotes by 191 unique authors

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to… — Ethel Waters
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone… — Jack Kerouac
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… — Galway Kinnell
Her butler opened it for her. His name was Boredom. She said, 'Boredom, fetch me a plaything.' He said 'Very good ma'am,' and putting on… — Jeanette Winterson
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked… — Caroline Stevermer
Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. — Robin Hobb
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! — James Joyce
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the… — O. Henry
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! — William Shakespeare
Give me the gun." Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of… — Janet Evanovich
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P.G. Wodehouse
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
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
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a… — Dorothy Parker
When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail… — Jodi Picoult
Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt… — Yukio Mishima
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts. — Frank Miller
Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and… — Rick Riordan
He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his… — Richelle Mead
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters… — Loretta Chase
He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's… — Loretta Chase

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