Handkerchief Quotes
49 quotes by 44 authors
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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
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A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
— Louis J. Camuti
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
— Frederick Buechner
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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
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You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.
— Jude Law
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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
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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
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All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.
— LeRoy Pope Walker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like,…
— Lana Parrilla
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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
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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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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
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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
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I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Handkerchief Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 49 Handkerchief Quotes, led by these top contributors: