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11 Quotes for 'Hatters' in the Database.
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Hatters Quotes
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"Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte
I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde
To me by eny other man;
If my floures ouver fade or falle,
Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle
As many a woman can."
Author: Adam of Cobsham
Source: The Wright's Chaste Wife (l. 265)
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So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,
While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.
Author: Rev. James Bramston
Source: Man of Taste
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One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote
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A hat not much worse for wear.
Author: William Cowper
Source: History of John Gilpin
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My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,
Let Peggy wear.
Author: John Gay
Source: Shepherd's Week--Friday (l. 125)
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The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VIII)
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I know it is a sin
For me to sit and grin
At him here;
But the old three-cornered hat
And the breeches and all that
Are so queer.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: The Last Leaf
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The Quaker loves an ample brim,
A hat that bows to no Salaam;
And dear the beaver is to him
As if it never made a dam.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: All Round my Hat
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A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may
be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but,
be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the
hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience,
reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that
beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their
hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of
their hats'? The cock's all."
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: The Romance of a Keyhole (ch. III)
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes
with the next block.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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