Umbrella Quotes
189 Umbrella quotes by 159 unique authors
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Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to…
— Bobby Darin
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower…
— Douglas William Jerrold
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the…
— Dan Stevens
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
— Mark Twain
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She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that…
— Terry Pratchett
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As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
— Graham Greene
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. -…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may…
— James M. Barrie
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Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over…
— Malcolm X
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I have forgotten my umbrella.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
— George Carlin
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It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
— Sting
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Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies.…
— Stephen King
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She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the…
— Rick Riordan
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I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night…
— Kim Harrison
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I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Who Wrote These Umbrella Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 189 Umbrella Quotes, led by these top contributors: