Quotes About Glove

She picked up her glove and hit his cheek with it, but so lightly he did not even blink. "I despise you," she said. "Quite," said Mr. Mackenzie. Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

The Duke of Newcastle, as lord of the Manor of Worksop, was entitled to supply a glove for the sovereign's right hand and to support that hand when Elizabeth clasped the royal sceptre. Unfortunately, the duke had gone off to live in Rhodesia in 1948, and he showed no inclination to come back for the day.

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy's thoughts to his father's glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.

Tais-toi. Your glove. Madame Erskine, procure me a large pin,' said the Queen Dowager of Scotland. 'I have yet to meet a man who can lay hands on a pin when there is need for it.

She was repulsively furred with neglect and poverty, as even a good glove that has dropped down behind a bed in a hotel and has lain undisturbed for a day or two is repulsive when the chambermaid retrieves it from the dust and fluff.

car designers still haven't sorted this problem. They still install cigarette lighters, even though most smokers carry a lighter, and glove compartments – glove compartments! Why is there an area reserved for gloves? It just helps impulsive murderers, doesn't it? Electric windows are all very nice but hardly necessary. And yet no one has thought about emptying the bladder.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

For the first time, she felt she'd laid a glove on Doll Trapp. 'Well, you really are full of surprises,' she said. 'Interesting theory. I'd be careful who you share it with. Now, where was I?' That

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

The lover's discourse is usually a smooth envelope which encases the Image, a very gentle glove around the loved being.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF THE DEMOISELLE JEANNE D'Ys, WHO DIED IN HER YOUTH FOR LOVE OF PHILIP, A STRANGER. A.D. 1573." But upon the icy slab lay a woman's glove still warm and fragrant.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest.

You can't make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup." "Unless it's a Harris Hawk.

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.

Acting almost on a species memory, he runs forward, the glove before him.

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

I watched as the luminous child removed his left glove and laid his chill supernatural hand upon the forehead of the sleeping father.

The man Elizabeth had called her Elf never glanced down. His eyes sparkled in the lanterlight as he rubbed a glove forefinger against his thumb, and visibly came to a decision.

Baines smiled, voice like a velvet glove across the back of Kit's neck.

Much as she despised the man, she had to admit to a certain agreeable shiver when his lips brushed her glove.

It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future that never fades because it has never let go of the grasp the past has on you and so many others.

The Glove is in the Hall of Fame with the greats.