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Quotes About Beret

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
~ Ernie Harwell
And I love the beret. Just glad that it wasn't raspberry." "Or from a secondhand store," he deadpanned. "Although I would love to see you in it. And if it was warm…
~ Emily Giffin
He was a crusty old bastard, dressed like my uncle in ancient denim coveralls, espadrilles and beret. He had a leathery, tanned and windblown face, hollow cheeks, and the tiny broken blood vessels on nose and cheeks that everyone seemed to have from drinking so much of the local Bordeaux.
~ Anthony Bourdain
My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn't like baseball caps so I got a beret.
~ Jamie Hyneman
I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.
~ Billy Collins
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
~ Fred Allen
Tu nieznajomy uprzejmie zdj?? beret i pisarzom nie pozostawa?o nic innego, jak wsta? i uk?oni? si?.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Lanny identified him with Montmartre and imagined a bow tie and a beret, except that he knew the Nazis had banned the wearing of berets, which was classified among "demonstrations harmful to the state.
~ Upton Sinclair
Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.
~ Craig Kilborn
And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
The running joke was that at the graduation ceremony following their nine months of training, SAS graduates received the coveted tan beret in one hand and a broom in the other.
~ Orson Scott Card
You, I remember as you were last autumn. You were the gray beret and the heart in calm. In your eyes clashed the flames of twilight. And the leaves would fall in the water of your soul.
~ Pablo Neruda
I said. I was silently horrified. What was wrong with these people? Peter had started sporting a beret—another bad sign.
~ William Finnegan
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein Because he hates America he loves mistresses and he wears a beret. He is French people.
~ Conan O'Brien
Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.
~ Mitch Hedberg
At Cato's Irene Mayo waited in the booth McFee usually occupied. She wore a green felt beret, a string of pearls and a knitted green silk suit with white cuffs.
~ Otto Penzler