"Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the…" — Robin Hobb
"Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power."
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113 Quotes by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb has 113 quotes on this site.
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I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.
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I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before…
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
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I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
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Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
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Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your…
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The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.
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When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.
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Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.
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Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they…
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THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties,…
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life…
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More Cloaks Quotes
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
— Mark Peters
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
— Juvenal
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Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
— Bertrand Russell
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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