Handkerchief Quotes

I put a hand gently on her shoulder and held out my handkerchief. She looked at it skeptically. "It's all right," I said. "They're only grass stains. — Alan Bradley

Hans nods emphatically, lips pressed together, eyes bright and taunting, like a dog who steals a handkerchief so you will chase — Hilary Mantel

He thought of these years as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry. A small box. A handkerchief. A stone. — Paul Yoon

Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel

and a clean pocket-handkerchief. The — Naomi Novik

I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose. — Meghan Masterson

I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief. — Bill Bryson

The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief — Eduardo Galeano

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief — Douglas Adams

And for some reason he had an unfolded white handkerchief draped over his head, possibly to ward off rain, or hail, or brimstone. — J.D. Salinger

All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. — LeRoy Pope Walker

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief. — Gail Carriger

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief. — Louisa May Alcott

He had held out a handkerchief brimming with jewels, but she wouldn't take them. — Jean Nathan

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly

Vin looked down at the handkerchief. Whena nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief. — Brandon Sanderson

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' — Jude Law

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. — Anne Sullivan

Then came the deglutition of saliva, and the old lady instinctively wiped the stubble of her toothbrush moustache with her handkerchief. — Marcel Proust

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner

You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve. — Jeff Foxworthy

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue. — Lemony Snicket

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. — Louis J. Camuti

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' — James Naismith

He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. 'Somebody's mother,' he murmured reverently. — P.G. Wodehouse

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other. — Eoin Colfer

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief. — Margaret Mitchell

Where do you even buy a black lace handkerchief? Widows R Us? — Molly Harper

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. — Compton Mackenzie

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties? — Brad Meltzer

THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS — Alexandre Dumas

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. — Edgar Allan Poe

When I heard you cry I followed you, and saw you put down your handkerchief, screwed up, with its rage, with its hate, knotted in it. — Virginia Woolf