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Cloaks Quotes

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.54, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Shame is pride's cloak.

William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

"Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

"Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.24

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Fred Hoyle (1966). “Of Men and Galaxies”, p.24, University of Washington Press

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The Exemplary Novels”, p.353

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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, 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”