#garment

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#garment #god #grasp #hears #hem

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#bathing #caught #clothes #conservative #enjoyment

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earliest #eat #garment #greet #invisible

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clings #garment #government #must #people

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cut #garment #heart #intellect #speaks

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#festive #freedom #garment #good #home

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. ↗

— Herodotus

#garment #her #hers #removes #respect

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#animal #beings #determines #garment #human