Cloak Room Quotes

#1. You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

Oscar Wilde

#2. Me, sir! What has it to do with me? You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? Good morning, Mr. Worthing!

Oscar Wilde

#3. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has.

Arnold Bennett

#4. It took us 2,000 years to find Noah's ark. Do we ever find Flight 370?

Bill Hemmer

#5. Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Sun Tzu

#6. NO TRESPASSING and SOLICITORS WARMLY GREETED WITH GUNFIRE signs,

Marcus Sakey

#7. If there was a simple formula for success and it was easy to follow, everyone would be doing it.

Edward Johnson, III

#8. Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Peter R. Pouncey

#9. And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,
Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that ties
My hair ... now could I but unloose my soul!
We are sepulchred alive in this close world,
And want more room.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#10. When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron's hot.

Markus Zusak

#11. The room spun with a thousand threads of words and thoughts and senses invisibly interweaving a cloak around us, embracing us with a warmth that surpassed all previous comfort.

Nancy Moser

#12. The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.

Gregory Figg

#13. Whatever replaces the fast food industry should be regional, diverse, authentic, unpredictable, sustainable, profitable
and humble. It should know its limits.

Eric Schlosser

#14. The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

Cornelia Funke

#15. I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.

Patricia Highsmith

#16. Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation.

Scott Berkun