Handkerchief Quotes

49 quotes by 44 authors

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. — Louis J. Camuti
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it… — Jude Law
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. — Jude Law
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his… — Elwyn Brooks White
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of… — Rachel Maddow
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. — LeRoy Pope Walker
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a… — Anna Akhmatova
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until… — Kim Do-Jin
Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw.… — Bernie Siegel
When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family â€“ real silly high-concept productions like,… — Lana Parrilla
If the Scottish want to break away, I shall stand on Hadrian's Wall with a teary handkerchief, and say: 'Good riddance to the lot of… — Jeremy Clarkson
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes… — Herb Caen
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. — Anne Sullivan Macy
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief,… — Robert Schumann

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