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13 Quotes for 'Umbrellas' in the Database.
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We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an Indian waste without a tree.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, l. 259)
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Of doues I haue a dainty paire
Which, when you please to take the aier,
About your head shall gently houer,
Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,
And with their nimble wings shall fan you
That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,
And like umbrellas, with their feathers
Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.
Author: Michael Drayton
Source: Davis
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Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade,
Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread,
Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display,
To guard their beauties from the sunny ray;
Or sweating slaves support the shady load,
When eastern monarchs show their state abroad;
Britain in winter only knows its aid,
To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
Author: John Gay
Source: Trivia (bk. I, l. 209)
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When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve,
When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.
Author: Rossiter Johnson
Source: A Rhyme of the Rain
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The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as
much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.
Author: John Williamson Palmer
Source: Up and Down the Irrawadde
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See, here's a shadow found; the human nature
Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,
To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator;
Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.
Author: Francis Quarles
Source: Emblems, bk. IV, 14
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim
of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point,
indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess
really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas, written in collaboration with J.W. Ferrier
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Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Description of a City Shower
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Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Author: George Carlin
Source: None
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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Author: Alfred E. Smith
Source: None
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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
Author: Jean Kerr
Source: None
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