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182 Sleeve quotes by 160 unique authors

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly. — Eartha Kitt
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. — John Mayer
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. — Margaret Thatcher
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W S Merwin
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am. — William Shakespeare
I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up… — Eoin Colfer
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes,"… — Georgette Heyer
I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. — Maya Angelou
What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you… — Tennessee Williams
A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should… — Donita K. Paul
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because… — Lois Lowry
Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on… — Rob Sheffield
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her… — Jodi Picoult
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love… — Graham Greene
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on… — Robert Farrar Capon
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the… — Frank Peretti
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
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' It looks to me like you're using a wall to… — Cassandra Clare
Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What… — Libba Bray
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is… — Andrew Peterson
Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a… — Sara Zarr
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out… — Megan Whalen Turner

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