Garments Quotes
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The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Spring'.
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Prelude (Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847))
They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 22:16-18.
There was a young belle of old Natchez Whose garments were always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.
— 1938 I'm a Stranger Here Myself,'Requiem'.
There was one young man who sat regularly in a spectator's seat about whom it was later testified that not one thread of his under or outer garments had retained its original color, so drenched were they by his own blood after a visit to Heinrich Baab in 1942.
heinrich baab— Kay Boyle in The Smoking Mountain (1951)
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
john calvin— Page 85 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balmFor eyes grown weary of the garish day!Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments gray,Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palmThe poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
julia caroline dorr— Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
sarah grimké— Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?
lucy stone— Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1854); as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1898) by Ida Husted Harper.
The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
benjamin disraeli— Speech in the House of Commons (28 February 1845), referring to Sir Robert Peel.
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.
ha-joon chang— Ch. 3, More trade, fewer ideologies, p. 67.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Hymn to the Night, st. 1 (1839)
Those who wash their body and cleanse their garments whilst they remain dirty by bad actions and principles, are described by Solomon as "a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness; a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!" &c. (Prov. xxx. 12-13). Consider well the principles which we mentioned... as the final causes of the Law; for there are many precepts, for which you will be unable to give a reason unless you possess a knowledge of these principles...
maimonides— Ch.33 (Part III)
The Prince himself has no distinction, either of garments, or of a crown; but is only distinguished by a sheaf of corn carried before him; as the high priest is also known by his being preceded by a person carrying a wax light.
— Ch. 7 : Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 11 (The Prime Minister (1876))
Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCI
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balm For eyes grown weary of the garish day! Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments gray, Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palm The poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
— Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 6, line 83.
Take them, O Grave! and let them lie Folded upon thy narrow shelves, As garments by the soul laid by, And precious only to ourselves!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Suspiria.
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity, Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.
— David Macbeth Moir, The White Rose.
There was one young man who sat regularly in a spectator's seat about whom it was later testified that not one thread of his under or outer garments had retained its original color, so drenched were they by his own blood after a visit to Heinrich Baab in 1942.
— Kay Boyle in The Smoking Mountain (1951)
[Christ of Revelation] comes forth as one who no longer seeks either friendship or love … His garments are dipped in blood, the blood of others. He descends that he may shed the blood of men.
— Isaac Haldemann, quoted by Karen Armstrong (2007) in The Bible: A Biography, p. 209.
Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.
— Earl of Essex to Lord Willoughby (Jan. 4, 1598–9)
I heard the trailing garments of the Night sweep through her marble halls.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hymn to the Night.
