Top 238 Cloak Quotes & Sayings

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

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

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.

It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

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

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my road, My town and my world behind me. I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring, I've swallowed the magic potion. I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king And dived in a bottomless ocean. I opened a book and made some friends. I shared their tears and laughter And followed their road with its bumps and bends To the happily ever after. I finished my book and out I came. The cloak can no longer hide me. My chair and my house are just the same, But I have a book inside me.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

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

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.

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

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

Shame is pride's cloak.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

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

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

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

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.