Velvet Glove Quotes

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

Robin Hobb

#2. Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. 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

#4. Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

Alain De Botton

#5. In the midst of affection and longing the iron hand appeared within the velvet glove....

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#6. Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.

Robert Greene

#7. [Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.

Iain Duncan Smith

#8. Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

Philip Massinger

#9. Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

Charles Hazlewood

#10. Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Dana Gioia

#11. Are you sure about this? The lion wondered. We could have six females to serve us. Less work.
Tru stifled a laugh. That's what you think.

Ellen Connor

#12. Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

#13. It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R R Martin

#14. Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

Morgan Freeman

#15. I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.

Jack Campbell

#16. People really don't know the extent of what I actually do. I'm not one of those rappers ... "Hey! Make a hit. Throw it on an album! Sit at home and make more music." I put 4 or 5 mixtapes out and do shows all year long.

Gorilla Zoe

#17. Since the kid-free time was so infrequent, she eagerly dove back into the world of Forks High School.

Melanie Codina

#18. Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.

David Foster Wallace

#19. Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Rob Bell

#20. I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Tom Ford

#21. And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!

Edgar Allan Poe