Breeches Quotes
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 4 January 1823.
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto X, Stanza 79.
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1775 Bob Acres.The Rivals, act 2, sc.1.
He is like a book in breeches.
Rev Sydney Smith— Of Lord Macaulay. Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1, ch.11.
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
cordell hull— Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948), 1:220
— This is a variant of similar statements attributed earlier to Mark Twain, e.g., "A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on." The oldest attribution (1831) is to Fisher Ames: “falsehood proceeds from Maine to Georgia, while truth is pulling on his boots”.
'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
— Act V. (The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637))
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
— The last Leaf; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
You put your cat in your hat and stuff it down your breeches, Rand al’Thor.
robert jordan— Egwene al'Vere
Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.
jack vance— Chapter 9, section 4 (p. 505)
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.
George Canning— The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.
He [Macaulay] is like a book in breeches.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Chapter IX.
And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers, Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 923.
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat And the breeches and all that Are so queer.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Last Leaf.
'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
— John Fletcher, The Elder Brother (c. 1625; 1637), Act V.
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.
— Thomas Percy, Reliques, Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee, Stanza 7; quoted in Othello, Act II, scene 2.
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on.
cordell hull— Cordell Hull, Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948), 1:220.
Oh people, the Messenger of God said: Whoever sees an aggressive tyrant that legalizes the forbiddens of God, breeches divine laws, opposes the tradition of the Prophet, oppresses the worshippers of God, and does not concede his opposition to God in word or in deed, surely Allah will place that tyrant (in the Hell) where he deserves.
— Khawarazmi, Maqtal al-Husayn, vol.1, p.234
