Gloves Quotes
220 Gloves quotes by 191 unique authors
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
— Babe Ruth
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
— Joseph Stalin
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
— Taylor Swift
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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was…
— Andre Leon Talley
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Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
— John Thorn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
— Robin Hobb
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Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
— James Joyce
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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
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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
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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
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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Gloves Quotes
191 authors contributed a total of 220 Gloves Quotes, led by these top contributors: