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Quotes About Handkerchief

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
She fumbled with her bag and pulled out a handkerchief. Her voice trembled.
~ Agatha Christie
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.
~ Carl Sandburg
Talking of 'letting go of a lot of stuff,' his father handed the phrase back to Seamus, held by the corner like someone else's used handkerchief....
~ Edward St. Aubyn
was talking to that girl we were dancing with.' Bletchley ran his handkerchief round beneath his collar. 'Apparently he hardly makes anything out of it at all.
~ David Storey
Again the dainty handkerchief came into play. Emerson made clucking noises. I said nothing, but drank my whiskey in ladylike silence.
~ Elizabeth Peters
This is the end, the redemption from Wilderness, way for the Wonderer, House sought for All, black handkerchief washed clean by weeping.
~ Allen Ginsberg
A thin layer of chocolate covers my fingers when I'm finished. "Here," she says, handing me a handkerchief. I rub my hands on my jeans.
~ Ally Carter
Yer skirt invites a man's attention. I've seen handkerchiefs that were bigger." She swung her handbag over her shoulder. "At least I wear underwear under my skirt." "I hope they're nice since everyone is sure to see them.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Papa, look," I said, waving the prize handkerchief in the air. "I won! I won first prize!" "Hmmph," he said, sounding unimpressed. "I'll be sure to have you stitch some flowers on the forehead of my next patient.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.
~ Eoin Colfer
Take this and put it to your nose or you'll be covered in blood! Calmly, calmly, little one, just don't faint. I'm beside you. I'm beside you… daughter. Hold the handkerchief. I'll just conjure up some ice…
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief." "I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered. "Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully.
~ Lewis Carroll
Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow mind is burning as he sits watching her hands and thinks how rare! to see a Roman talk with no gestures at all.
~ Anne Carson
There was another tear streaming down his windblown cheek and as he replied she lifted the handkerchief in her hand and wiped it away, feeling the not unpleasant pull of his beard against the thin cotton.
~ Alice McDermott
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Do you have a handkerchief?" she asked. "No," the prince said, looking amused. "I suppose you have servants who carry around that sort of thing in case you sneeze," she said. "You aren't carrying one either," he retorted. "I don't have room; my reticule is full of cheese." "I thought you had an interesting smell! Most ladies smell rather French.
~ Eloisa James
Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
~ Randy Houser
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
The first time, I couldn't have felt more panicked if I'd sneezed and found pieces of my brain in the handkerchief.
~ Arthur Golden
She took out the last of the books, then nearly dropped the canvas bag in fright. At the bottom, neatly wrapped in a red handkerchief, she could just make out the bone grip of a Colt .45 pistol.
~ Jojo Moyes
Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day.
~ Barbara Kingsolver