145 Quotes About Hats

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

A Dutchman stepped out of his house and asked two British Soldiers if they would like a cup of tea. A little further back along the route they had come, the bodies of British paratroopers lay 'everywhere, many of them behind trees or poles', Albert Horstman of the Arnhem underground recorded. He then saw 'a man about middle-aged, who wore a hat. This man went to every dead soldier, lifted his hat and stood in silence for a few seconds.

All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.Hats can do the same thing.

Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter."It isn't mine," said the Hatter."Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact."I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none of my own. I'm a hatter.

A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!

By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.

Personally I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat, or you can't wear a hat."

(My copy of Hall's 'Secret Teachings of All Ages' has a really neat picture of Shakespeare with an onionskin engraving of Bacon that you can lay over it to see what Shakespeare would have looked like in a fruity hat. I truly recommend this book.)