coat quotes

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 37:3.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

- Robert Browning
  Of  Wordsworth. Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'The Lost Leader'.

I am no prophetand here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

- Dorothy Fields
  'On the Sunny Side of the Street'.

The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

-Honorius of Autun
  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 20  Jul. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

They have asked me for my trousers, and I have given them; for my coat, and I have given that also; now they want my life, and that I cannot give.

- Paulus Kruger
  Speech in the Raad,7 Sep, at the beginning of the second Boer War,1899^1902.

In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we havebeenbrought up, thegigantic body, thehugemassy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.

-1st Baron
  Of Dr Samuel Johnson.'Croker's new edition of  The Life of Samuel Johnson', in the Edinburgh Review, Sep.

His iron coat all overgrown with rust, Was underneath envelope'  d with gold, Whose glistering gloss darkened with filthy dust, Well yet appeare'  d, to have been of old A work of rich entail, and curious mold, Woven with antics and wild imagery.

- Edmund Spenser
  Of Mammon.The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 7, stanza 4.

To eat, to survive and to have a good coat.

- Barbara originally Ruby Stevens Stanwyck
  Her three goals in life, recalled on receiving theAmerican Film Institute LifeAchievement Award. Reported in the NewYork Times,11 Apr.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza1.

I have made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'A Coat', complete poem. Collected in Responsibilities (1914).

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'Sailing to Byzantium', stanza 8. Collected in TheTower (1928).