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  • There's no taking trout with dry breeches. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men. -- Elizabeth Aston
  • We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! -- Scott Lynch
  • Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches... -- Frances Hardinge
  • Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. -- Lord Byron
  • He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches. -- John Aubrey
  • 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
  • What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves. -- Gail Carriger
  • 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
  • The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. -- Ridley Scott
  • 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
  • He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs. -- Joseph Conrad
  • To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve. -- William Ernest Henley
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