74 Quotes About Coats

I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best....

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.