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Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will. — Mahatma Gandhi

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! — Thomas Brooks

When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay. — George Whyte-Melville

Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came. — Helen Simonson

the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As — Patrick Rothfuss

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power. — William Hazlitt

The two Reds crewing the old trash collector are giving us a countdown. When it reaches one, Sevro says, "Tuck your sacks and pop your cloaks." I — Pierce Brown

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet. — Diogenes

He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood. — George R R Martin

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. — Tanya Huff

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. — Robin Hobb

We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains. — Maurice De Saxe

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K. — Gary Oldman

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. — Jeanette Winterson

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. — William Wordsworth

He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight. — Steven Erikson

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision. — Fred Hoyle

Sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak? — Rumi

Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity — Augustine Of Hippo

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen. — William Soutar

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. — Douglas William Jerrold

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around. — George R R Martin

all success cloaks a surrender — Simone De Beauvoir

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick

When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. — Holly Black

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. — Robin Hobb

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak. — Celia Rees

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker — Miguel De Cervantes

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand. — William Shakespeare

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. — Steve Almond

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak. — Robert E. Howard

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks. — Claire Forlani

First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well. Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; — William Shakespeare

The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens

God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love? — C.J. Anderson