Quotes About Cloaks

#1. In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.

Roald Dahl

#2. Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers ...

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Juvenal

#4. Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. Sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#6. 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

#7. Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

Giovanni Giocondo

#8. When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

George Whyte-Melville

#9. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

Muriel Barbery

#10. I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

Claire Forlani

#11. Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Robin Hobb

#12. The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane. For a second they stood quite still, wands directed at each other's chests; then, recognizing each other, they stowed their wands beneath their cloaks and started walking briskly in the same direction.

J.K. Rowling

#13. I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.

Jim Butcher

#14. Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Douglas William Jerrold

#15. Don't kill the humans, the zombies, the guys in the dark cloaks or the girls that glow like the sun. Oh, or the crazy old woman with the fingernails growing out of her head.
Rhett

David Estes

#16. One thing I've learned about vampires
they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Robert E. Howard

#18. It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

George R R Martin

#19. Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Jeremy Bentham

#20. A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

William Soutar

#21. One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Rosemary Mahoney

#22. We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

Maurice De Saxe

#23. You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

John Legend

#24. Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

John Of Salisbury

#25. Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

William Wordsworth

#26. I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#27. Hypocrites - they wear gorgeous cloaks lined with lead; pretty outside, awful inside; heavy cloaks force them to behave sedately, although seething within; cloak true character in false appearance.

Dante Alighieri

#28. The Jedi Order's homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the light in the dark, the convergence of opposing energies.

James Luceno

#29. the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As

Patrick Rothfuss

#30. I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson

#31. He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight.

Steven Erikson

#32. Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

Steve Almond

#33. A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

Robin Hobb

#34. Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

Tanya Huff

#35. That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why:
No man of another can say, 'He is I.'
Behind all agreement lies something amiss
All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

Albert Einstein

#36. Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? And a whisper, a whisper about the Potters ...

J.K. Rowling

#37. It has started to snow. We all ran out when it began, and played at catching flakes as we used to when we were children. But it was cold, and our boots and gloves and cloaks were soon wet - you feel these things more when you are grown-up.

Natasha Farrant

#38. Though some of us like to get on stage, many introverts are content to put on their invisibility cloaks and watch. But well-meaning extroverts will have none of that! They need to draw us out, invite us to participate - repeatedly - and question why we are so depressed as to not want to join.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#39. Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Miguel De Cervantes

#40. Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

Celia Rees

#41. If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

Rumi

#42. Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

David Gemmell

#43. Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.

Helen Simonson

#44. The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I

Pierce Brown

#45. It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more that atoned for, every riddle unriddled and twilight quietly cloaks the crosses, now no longer upright, of graves I once wept over.

Teffi

#46. all success cloaks a surrender

Simone De Beauvoir

#47. How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

Thomas Brooks

#48. One thing he shared with the singing bird was a love of rain and especially of storms. He always felt a deep thrill of awe when the pale sapphire cloaks of sky were flung aside and dark raging heavens roared and plunged and cast fire and water and ice upon the earth. Something

Jonathan Renshaw

#49. When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

William Shakespeare

#50. Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

C.J. Anderson

#52. First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;

William Shakespeare

#53. When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.

Holly Black

#54. Ask the Prince of Dragonstone." For an instant, the deep red clouds that crowned the western hills reminded him of Rhaegar's children, all wrapped up in crimson cloaks.

George R R Martin

#55. Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

Kevin Mitnick

#56. He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood.

George R R Martin

#57. The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

William Hazlitt

#58. In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

Diana Wynne Jones

#59. You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

Gary Oldman

#60. Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Bertrand Russell

#61. It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Fred Hoyle

#62. If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

Diogenes