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And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. -- Edward Fitzgerald
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. -- Deborah Cox
I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen. -- Bobby Sager
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. -- William Shakespeare
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. -- John Buchan
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. -- Stephen Breyer
After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change? -- Danny DeVito
I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything. -- Tim McGraw
I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword. -- Mads Mikkelsen
I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe. -- Iris Apfel
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds. -- Joan Lunden
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic. -- Russell Smith
The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print. -- Diane von Furstenberg
When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark. -- Miranda Kerr
I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword. -- Olivia De Havilland
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. -- Mason Cooley
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. -- Francis Beaumont
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. -- Charles Spurgeon
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I've never walked home wearing just a pink robe and a pair of slippers. -- Jessica Sorensen
This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks. -- Noel Fielding
You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent! -- Abu Nuwas
Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary. -- Pat Robertson
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. -- Walter Savage Landor
I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening. -- Henri
Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you? -- Dan Brown
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? -- John Heywood
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. -- John Galt
In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled. -- Curtis Hutson
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. -- Daniel Webster
The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. -- Myrlie Evers-Williams
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe. -- John Hagee
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp. -- Henry Fuseli
Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe. -- Greg Gutfeld
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. -- John Milton
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe. -- Gautama Buddha
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office. -- Winston Churchill
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews. -- Robert Burns
I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...] -- Lauren Child
I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed. -- Frank Carson
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. -- Joseph Rodman Drake
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. -- Lord Byron
...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India.... -- The New York Times
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast. -- William Shakespeare
When she faced the noise, she found the mayor's wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom. -- Markus Zusak
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our throne, and the Sea a mighty minstrel playing before it. -- John Keats
Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness. -- Gautama Buddha
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation. -- Richard E. Byrd
Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick. -- Neal Shusterman

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