Livery Quotes

#1. Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

John Milton

#2. Blood is the god of war's rich livery.

Christopher Marlowe

#3. There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow.

Charles Dickens

#4. I should have remembered that your livery is a spider." He gave a very small smile, which for Doyle was an outrageous amount of expression. "Normally, I would give you time to adjust to my presence, our predicament, but your wards will not hold forever. We must act if you are to be saved.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider's personality.

Valentino Rossi

#6. Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Francis Quarles

#7. As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

Hugh Latimer

#8. One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Horace Mann

#9. That's not going to happen, because I love you. If anyone's getting their heart broken here, it's me. Not you.

Wendy Higgins

#10. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.

Lawrence Wright

#12. God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

James Russell Lowell

#13. It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Edith Wharton

#14. It's about keeping the peace, said Rasso from the livery. His choice of words made Marzo want to smile. Rasso had borrowed the phrase from him and, like any man in the colony who borrowed anything, he seemed determined to use it till it fell apart before he was called on to give it back.

K.J. Parker

#15. Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Apart from the fact that a lot of them know each other, they were all in livery. Anyone dressed differently would have been as obvious as a horse in a field of cows.

Anne Perry

#17. KILKENNY STUDIED THE street outside. The bulk of the outlaws seemed to have holed up in the livery stable and they were putting up a hot fire. Others had taken positions behind a pile of stones beyond the street and still others in the bunkhouse. There was no way to estimate their numbers. Some

Louis L'Amour

#18. Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Matthew McConaughey

#19. A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

William Shakespeare

#20. That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

Robyn Schneider

#21. Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Rachel Hartman

#22. There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Anya Seton

#23. A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Joseph Addison

#24. The cunning livery of hell.

William Shakespeare

#25. I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.

Brandon Stanton

#26. Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

Robert Herrick

#27. Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Gloria Steinem

#28. Look up at the miracle of the falling snow, - the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

John Burroughs

#29. Saviour! teach me, day by day,Love's sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving Him who first loved me.Charity is the very livery of Christ.

Hugh Latimer

#30. For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness.

William Shakespeare

#31. Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#32. Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#33. already, and the fuzz walks in on some newlyweds from Sioux Falls.

William S. Burroughs

#34. A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

Jean De La Bruyere

#35. Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

David Hockney

#36. Put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

#37. There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#38. All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher