Top 100 His Hat Quotes
#1. Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. 'Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe.
Ellen O'Connell
#2. his hat from his head and presses it to his chest. I walk a few dozen yards from the train, climb the grassy bank, and sit rubbing my
Sara Gruen
#3. Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it.
Josh Weil
#4. Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat.
Peter Matthiessen
#5. You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
Raymond Chandler
#6. He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he'd never let her see how close she'd come to unseating a champion
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#7. I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad Ali
#8. Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#10. It's better if I have a hat ... You wanna know a guy? Put on his hat. -Wayne.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
Emily Post
#12. Chivalry: It's the little boy that kisses my hand, the young man who holds the door open for me, and the old man who tips his hat to me. None of it is a reflection of me, but a reflection of them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#13. The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
Raymond Chandler
#14. If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.
Cormac McCarthy
#15. It gives you the impression of an escaped lunatic's conversation while chasing his hat on a windy day.
W.H. Lewis
#16. No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#17. After a while he pulled his hat down over his eyes and stood and placed his hands outstretched on the roof of the cab and rode in that manner. As if he were some personage bearing news for the countryside. As if he were some newfound evangelical being conveyed down out of the mountains ...
Cormac McCarthy
#18. But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.
Marcel Proust
#19. "Do you have any more surprise stowaways up your sleeve?" I ask Morpheus.
Pushing dents out of his hat, he scowls. "I'm starting to fear I didn't bring enough. If there's one thing netherlings are good at, it's cleaning messes."
A.G. Howard
#20. Think of that! He removes his hat without misgiving, he unbuttons his coat and sits down, proffered all pure and open to the long joys of being himself, like a basin to a vomit.
Samuel Beckett
#21. What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
Victor Hugo
#22. She wondered what he looked like with his hat off and wondered again if he knew he was funny.
Elmore Leonard
#24. A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.
Walt Whitman
#25. I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
Pete Rose
#26. Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb.
Anna Godbersen
#27. All men are tragic ... All men are comic ... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.
Victor Hugo
#29. I've lived the literal meaning of the "land of the free" and "home of the brave." It's not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn't take off his hat, it pisses me off. I'm not one to be quiet about it, either.
Chris Kyle
#30. Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!
Jase Robertson
#31. Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of melon rinds and other such articles.
Nikolai Gogol
#32. That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.
Tina Fey
#33. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes and the stars though his soul" - Victor Hugo
Alex Flinn
#34. Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.
Anna Godbersen
#35. Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In 'The Hat', Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That's the advice that my mother gave me - not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.
Jan Brett
#36. Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.
John Steinbeck
#37. Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.
John Fowles
#38. I dinna normally answer the door."
"Ah," Strath said, offering a charming smile as he whipped off his hat. "You are doing a fine job thus far. Well done, Mrs. Pitcairn."
She eyed Strath the way a cat might eye a snake. "It dinna take much in the way o'talent.
Karen Hawkins
#39. You thinkin bout the time I shot you and you rose from the dead? It only happens once in your life." He turned to Carol again and she said:
"Were you actually aiming at his hat?"
"I hit it didn't I?
Elmore Leonard
#40. They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.
Antonia Michaelis
#41. Tucker took off his cowboy hat and laid it on top of the dresser and then crossed the room to close the curtains. The big question of the night was answered - he did take off his hat for sex.
Cat Johnson
#42. I'm sorry this happened to you, Marie,' he said wearily. 'There's a lot of cruelty in the world.' And then he waved his hat to indicate the paths through the park and all the people on them. 'You'll be lucky if this is your worst taste of it.
Alice McDermott
#43. Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.
Bruce Springsteen
#44. I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
Larry McMurtry
#45. He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
William Gaddis
#46. Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.
Elizabeth Peters
#47. There's not much who would have hit him [Fabio Capello] in the eye and made him put his hat on.
Glenn Hoddle
#48. Yet again, Matt pulled another rabbit out of his hat and got a fire for us.
Joe Teti
#49. If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
Thomas Gray
#50. When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family
Drew Bundini Brown
#51. The god's nostrils flared. One of the grape leaves on his hat burst into flame. "If we know each other from that other camp, it's a wonder I haven't already turned you into a dolphin."
"It was discussed," Percy assured him. "I think you were just too lazy to do it.
Rick Riordan
#52. Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.
Joan Collins
#53. Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.
Thomas Harris
#55. At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life.
The passengers cheered.
Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!
Rick Riordan
#56. If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.
Joe Abercrombie
#57. When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.
Arthur Bryant
#58. It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
Erin Morgenstern
#59. Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over his shoulder in a medieval fashion, which was very becoming to him.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room,
or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.
Laurence Sterne
#61. 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 distract from a wizard's dignity.
Donita K. Paul
#62. I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met."
"She's been gone awhile
out to California," Trip explained.
The Sheriff nodded, replacing his hat,"Sorry to hear that.
Karen White
#63. On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears
John Connolly
#64. Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette
in the narcotic repose between two love-makings
or the absent gaze of a passerby
who takes off his hat to another passerby
with a meaningless smile and a good morning
Forough Farrokhzad
#65. Many in this world run after felicity like an absent man hunting for his hat, while all the time it is on his head or in his hand.
Sydney Smith
#66. Tarvek: "You call that 'throwing?'"
Gilgamesh: "Hey, at least I got his hat!
Phil Foglio
#67. I've always treated the man with unremitting kindness, and if he wont do a little thing like this for me, I'll kick his spine through his hat.
P.G. Wodehouse
#68. Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?
Franklyn Ajaye
#69. Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.
Edgar Guest
#70. The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.
Gail Collins
#71. She turned to Jin now, sprawled by the fire, his hat pulled over his eyes. "I can tell you're awake. Are you coming with us?" He sighed, tipping his hat backward. "Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get some sleep before going to near certain death.
Alwyn Hamilton
#72. And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
Nicole Krauss
#73. A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
#74. I'm attracting small children," Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. "Shoo it away, will you?
Rachel Hartman
#75. The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
Friedrich Schiller
#76. SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter."
He puts his hat on Albus's head - and this time he seems to take longer - almost as if he too is confused.
"SLYTHERIN!"
There's a silence.
A perfect, profound silence.
One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it.
J.K. Rowling
#77. He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.
Ernest Hemingway,
#78. There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
Gregory Peck
#79. Sir,' she called out. 'Lord Bradford.'
He turned. His eyes lit up, seeing Azalea.
'Thank you,' said Azalea.
Lord Bradford bowed deeply, removing his hat, which re-rumpled his hair. When he straightened, he was smiling, as crooked as his cravat, and Azalea couldn't help but smile back.
Heather Dixon
#80. How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him ...
George Eliot
#81. I'm not going to touch her," he said "She's not mine.She never will be."
"Indeed." Bruiser rolled his eyes and dusted off his hat. "Definitely no years of pent-up lusting there. Glad we have that sorted.
Tessa Dare
#82. For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.
Louis Bayard
#83. I encountered in the street a penniless young man who was in love. His hat was old and his jacket worn, with holes at the elbows; water soaked through his shoes, but starlight flooded through his soul.
Victor Hugo
#84. I think that may have been the biggest rally Donald Trump had, and he had the cap that said "Make American Great Again." So I thought that was - I liked that. We do need to make American great again, and I put his hat on for a little bit.
Jeff Sessions
#85. Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?
Ron Chernow
#86. When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that's where she'd clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.
Julie Anne Long
#87. Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!
Michel Faber
#88. Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.
Stephanie Grace Whitson
#89. After he tipped his hat and left, Jillian watched him stride down the hallway. Yeah, Big-brotherly overprotection aside, fortysomething looked good on the police captain from this view, too.
Julie Miller
#90. Honestly, we don't kick or bite or throw potatoes at all our guests."
A crooked smile touched Lord Bradford's lips.
"Your family has spirit," he said, taking his hat from Azalea. "I enjoyed the evening."
"Well, yes, you've just come from a war," said Azalea.
Heather Dixon
#92. Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.
Ramona Ausubel
#93. One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, ... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better
Isaac Asimov
#94. The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
Yehuda Amichai
#95. Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.
Cormac McCarthy
#96. It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
Kingsley Amis
#97. And then George approaching, his hand stuck to his hat and the hat bent into the onslaught. She
Alice McDermott
#98. Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it
Dave Barry
#99. Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.
William Donaldson
#100. Rhage raised his hand " Pastor Ass-hat, I have a question." "Yes my son, you are going to hell
J.R. Ward
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