Cloaks Quote by Robin Hobb

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

— Anonymous

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

— Anonymous

It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can…

— Gregory David Roberts

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

— Rachel McAdams

“First, very little is as striking as a well-worn cloak, billowing lightly about you in the breeze. And second, the best cloaks have innumerable…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

— John French Sloan

The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out…

— Cornelia Funke

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

— Bob Dylan

“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment”

— wallace stevens

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak. "Life," answered the doctor.

— Rick Yancey

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

— Jonathan Stroud

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth…

— Giovanni Giocondo