Glove Quotes
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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.
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More Glove Quotes
Mr Lewis'spictures appeared, as averygreat painter said to me, to have been painted bya mailed fist in a cotton glove.
— 1965 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.
— 1934 Of Dorothy Parker.While Rome Burns,'Our Mrs Parker'.
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
william cowper— Line 173. (Table Talk (1782))
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Chapter XII: The Minister's Vigil
She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
leigh hunt— The Glove and the Lions
Why do you think I always have a rubber glove?
kerry jackson— Radio From Hell (September 8, 2005)
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
Alain de Botton— p. 244 (The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009))
Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
piet hein— Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966)
When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.
van morrison— Who Was That Masked Man
Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags, But we've something they'll never have
morrissey— from the song "Hand In Glove"
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.
william cowper— William Cowper, Table Talk (1782), line 173.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
— Act II, scene 2, line 23.
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
— Attributed to Charles V. Used also by Napoleon. See Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, No, II
