quotes about Cloaks
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Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.
-- Cate TiernanSource : Cate Tiernan (2012). “Darkness Falls (Immortal Beloved Book Two): Immortal Beloved: Book Two”, p.450, Hachette UK
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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 ForlaniSource : "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.
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When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.
-- George Whyte-MelvilleSource : George John Whyte-Melville (1871). “M. Or N.: "Similia Similibus Curantur."”, p.76
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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 SalisburySource : John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1963). “The statesman's book of John of Salisbury: being the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books, of the Policraticus”
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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 StroudSource : Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion
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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?
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
-- Steve AlmondSource : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books
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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