Quotes of Robe - somelinesforyou

“ Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that? ”

- Nikolai Gogol

“ The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. ”

- James Martineau

“ Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. ”

- Wim Wenders

“ You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. ”

- Mae West

“ Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy. ”

- Unknown

“ He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. ”

- Walter Benjamin

“ Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge. ”

- Marian Mountain

“ Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ”

- Barbara Tuchman

“ Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. ”

- John Milton

“ Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. ”

- Cicero

“ An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned… ”

- James Baldwin

“ We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us — loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe — yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below! ”

- Queen Victoria

“ Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, is like this old figure. ”

- Matsuo Basho
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