Cloaks quotes
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Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
-- Cate Tiernan -
Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.
-- Celia Rees -
I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.
-- Claire Forlani -
When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.
-- George Whyte-Melville -
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
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 -
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 -
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
-- Jonathan Mayhew -
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Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
-- Juvenal -
I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
-- Paul Weller -
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.
-- Robert E. Howard -
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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
-- Rumi -
If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
-- Rumi -
all success cloaks a surrender
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
-- Steve Almond -
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sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.
-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit -
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-- William Proxmire -
A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
-- William Soutar
