glove quotes

He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the ba'; And the bonnie Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a'. He was a braw gallant, And he play'd at the glove; And the bonnie Earl of Murray, O he was the Queen's luve. O lang will his lady Look owre the castle Doune, Ere she sees the Earl of Murray Come sounding thro'the toun.

-Ballads
'The Bonnie Earl of Murray'.

If the President has a bully pulpit, then the First Lady has a white glove pulpit†more refined, restricted, ceremonial, but it's a pulpit all the same.

- Nancy Reagan
  In the NewYorkTimes,10 Mar.

Mr Lewis'spictures appeared, as averygreat painter said to me, to have been painted bya mailed fist in a cotton glove.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  OnWyndham Lewis. Taken Care Of, ch.11.

Sheisso odda blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth.It is not so much the familiar phenomenon of a hand of steel in a velvet glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
  Of Dorothy Parker.While Rome Burns,'Our Mrs Parker'.