Boots Quotes
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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The psycho-analyst infers the monstrous and abnormal from a trifle; it is often safe to reverse the process. If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
arthur machen— "The Children of the Pool", in The Children of the Pool and Other Stories (New York: Arno Press, [1936] 1976) p. 83.
They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.
alan ayckbourn— A Gardener in Love, Intimate Exchanges (1982)
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
roger zelazny— Isle of the Dead
If he ever went to school without any boots, it was because he was too big for them. SeeWilson 915:89.
— 1949 At the Conservative Party conference, responding to remarks by Harold Wilson about his humble upbringing.
The dark notes rose everywhere, so dark, so sombre, they broke into a fountainlight as the rainbow sparkling and immaterial as invisible sources and echoes. The savannahs grew lonelyas the sea and broke again into a wave and forest. Tall trees with black marching boots and feet were clad in the spurs and sharp wings of a butterfly.
Rolf Harris— 1960 The Palace of the Peacock, ch.11.
Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times.Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.
Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe— 1974 Porterhouse Blue, ch.9.
From the [empty] carpet-bag she took out seven flannel night-gowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete.
— 1934 Mary Poppins, ch.1.
The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias.
anna akhmatova— Translated by D. M. Thomas.
Wearing silver boots and a hat, armbands and a smile, he whipped out his paintbrush, so to speak, and in 20 minutes painted pictures of his customers with a flourish - while a fascinated crowd gathered, some gaping in disbelief.
— Barbara Cole (8 February 2008). "Putting fun back into sex". Daily News (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 5.
Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.
Miguel de Cervantes— Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let none but he these arms displace, Who dares Orlando's fury face", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter lxvi; Ray, Proverbs; Thomas, English Prose Romance, page 85.
Look how you use proud words, When you let proud wordsgo, it is not easy to call them back, They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling look out how you use proud words.
Carl Sandburg— 1922 Slabs of the SunburntWest,'Primer Lesson'.
He's a gentleman: look at his boots.
George Bernard Shaw— 1913 Bystander. Pygmalion, act1.
He is the last of that old guard defending Cattle Land,Those knights who jousted for the cause — blood brothers of the brand;But now they’ve fenced the water-hole, they’re harrowing the plain,They’re changing all the sagebrush flats to fields of waving grain;The cowmen will be gone, they say, and there are no recruits —Good-bye, brave cattle-puncher in the high-heeled boots!
Arthur Chapman— The High-Heeled Boots, st. 3
It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring; into Cinderella's slippers as she danced till midnight; into the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy's boots that tramp; into the magic seven-leaguers. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.
diana cooper— "Winston and Clementine"
You take a 22-year-old American, you shoot at him all day long, you deprive him of sleep, you make him see his buddies being killed, he has their blood on his boots and blouse, and when you don't see perfection in his decisions you court-martial him? It's absurd.
paul hackett— Quoted by reporter Thomas Watkins for the Associated Press
Before we were old enough to practise at the nets with the Burslem men, we played most of our cricket on waste land that had been trampled flat by the clogs and boots of generations of miners.
bernard hollowood— Cricket on the Brain (1970)
You want to become competent at whatever you do. That does not mean to get phobics, who shake in their boots while their blood pressure blows through the roof, to believe, "This is not fear." The object is to get them to stay calm and alert, and to stay in their own lane, and to drive across the bridge, which remains standing.
— Richard Bandler, Time for a Change, 1993, p. 2–5
Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots.
— "Do not pass judgment on somebody until you have been in the same situation, undergone the same experiences, or tried the same thing."
— Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 62. Retrieved on 16 August 2013.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 3, line 59.
"Ah me! what boots us all our boasted power, Our golden treasure, and our purple state. They cannot ward the inevitable hour, Nor stay the fearful violence of fate."
— Richard West, Monody on Queen Caroline.
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
rudyard kipling— Gunga Din, Stanza 1.
boots boots boots boots movin' up and down again! There's no discharge in the war!
rudyard kipling— Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
john milton— John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 560
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay, What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
Sir Walter Raleigh— Sir Walter Raleigh, Dulcina. See Cayley's Life of Raleigh, Volume I, Chapter III.
Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.
— William B. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso, Act I, scene 4.
You want to become competent at whatever you do. That does not mean to get phobics, who shake in their boots while their blood pressure blows through the roof, to believe, "This is not fear." The object is to get them to stay calm and alert, and to stay in their own lane, and to drive across the bridge, which remains standing.
— Richard Bandler, Time for a Change, 1993, p. 2–5
He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 5.
Take off the boots, Americano.
— Who: Bandit #1 from "The Gunslinger's Tragedy"
— Note: The Bandit tries to steal John's shoes after taking his hat. Tired of being mocked, John shoots the Bandit after kneeling down to give the illusion of taking his shoes off.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
— King Edward, scene iii
