Top 134 Robe Quotes & Sayings

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.

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

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. [...]

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

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.

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.

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

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.

We have judges in the American system and they take on a black robe where they are supposed to shield their partisan preferences. They are not red or blue state judges. They are judges.

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.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.

Voiceover is probably the toughest of all the markets to get into. Everybody wants to do it because it's again three to five hours work. You can roll in there with your bedroom slippers and robe on if you wanted to. And it's fun.

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.

Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

... 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.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

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.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

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.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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.

Mircea leaned over to refill my wineglass, and a section of his bare chest showed under the robe, along with a hint of dusky nipple. It's a good thing I'm too stuffed to move, I thought hazily. I would so have jumped that.

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.

Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

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.

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.

I've never walked home wearing just a pink robe and a pair of slippers.

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.

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

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.

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.

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.

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.

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.

No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.

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.