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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- William Shakespeare
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. -- Ben Jonson
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes. -- Tammy Bruce
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- William Shakespeare
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. -- William Shakespeare
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. -- Barbara Tuchman
Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. -- Zebulon Pike
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks. -- Mo Udall
You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. -- William Shakespeare
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
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. -- Sarah Helen Whitman
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
I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything. -- Tim McGraw
Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. -- Mike Huckabee
It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties. -- Richard Land
You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! -- Rumi
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
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
Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate. -- Ray Harryhausen
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. -- James A. Baldwin
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri. -- Parley P. Pratt
I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. -- Thomas Campbell
I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story. -- Afrika Bambaataa
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. -- Sean Durkin
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. -- Miroslav Volf
There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution. -- Paul Broun
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. -- Noah Feldman
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. -- William Gurnall
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist. -- Beau Willimon
Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status. -- Eugene Kennedy
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. -- Clarence Thomas
Those clouds are angels' robes. -- Charles Kingsley
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. -- Alexander Pope
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim -- Rudyard Kipling
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. -- Sri Aurobindo
Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help. -- Stephen Batchelor
Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar. -- Guru Gobind Singh
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Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd. -- Tim Ward
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! -- Hosea Ballou
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. -- John Milton
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. -- Terry Goodkind
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. -- Christopher Moore
You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. -- Henry Bolingbroke
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? -- Tanith Lee
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair. -- William Butler Yeats
When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today? -- Joan Anderson
Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ... -- Phoebe Cary
Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand. -- Amy-Jill Levine
The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword. -- Tom Robbins
Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn't mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!) -- Rick Riordan
To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. -- Sei Shonagon
Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day. -- Robert Montgomery
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. -- Victor Hugo
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. -- Robin McKinley
The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees. -- Jude Law
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
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He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.... -- J. K. Rowling
Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning? -- J. K. Rowling
It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts. -- Chris Murray
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God. -- John Henry Newman
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes. -- Herman Melville
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide. -- Annie E. Clark
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. -- Charles Lamb
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people. -- Richelle Mead
I will say that cowboy hats and boots replaced our flowing robes and spiritual good looks. At least for the time being! In that central-Oregon desert where thousands would eventually come, work became our meditation. -- Milarepa
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat. -- Richard Paul Evans

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