41 Overcoat Quotes

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In winter, some voices are like coats. - Ahlam Mosteghanemi

In winter, some voices are like coats. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. — William Tyndale

The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink. — Pierre Balmain

All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater — Hubert de Givenchy

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? - Robert Benchley

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley

Everyone in the world should have a trench coat, and there should be a trench coat for everyone in the world. It does not matter your age; it doesn't matter your gender. — Angela Ahrendts

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me. — Dorothy Allison

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. - Lance Loud

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. — Lance Loud

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. — Charlie Chaplin

To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made. — Iris Apfel

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. - Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink. — Glenda Jackson

That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color. — Tina Fey

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. — James Russell Lowell

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. — William Shakespeare

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More Overcoat Quotes

A forest is the poor man’s overcoat. — American Proverbs

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable. — Terence McKenna

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. — Charles Peguy

I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied. — Dorothy Parker

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat. — Steve Sabol

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. — Wilson Mizner

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons. — Peter Carey

She carries chaos like an overcoat. — Ann Aguirre

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats. — James Thurber

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen. — John A. Macdonald

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave. — Claude Bernard

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. — Jack Irons

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in. — Bill Shankly

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father. — Frank Peretti

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone. — Carl Sandburg

Tom Finney would have been great in any team, in any match and in any age, even if he had been wearing an overcoat. — Bill Shankly

This is what happens to man in death. He puts off his overcoat, or what we call the physical, the gross body, and he is clothed in what, for the time being, I would call the astral body. The man continues to be the same, even as I would continue to be the same, if I took off this shawl. I would then appear to you in my shirt, but I would continue to be the same man. — Dada Vaswani

Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. — James Joyce

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual. — Martin Freeman

I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat." — Alan Bennett

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered. — Sherwood Anderson

I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school. — Charles Frazier

Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain. — Adolphe Menjou

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