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Quotes About Gloves

Jake's POV: ...And we laughed. Suddenly my palms were sweating under my gloves. I slid my hand away and we got back to work, but I felt as if my whole body was on high alert. There was no getting around it anymore. I was falling for this girl. Big-time.
~ Kieran Scott
He was a young dandy, and his habiliments, even to his gloves, were entirely yellow.
~ Émile Zola
Is Heathcliff not here?' she demanded, pulling off her gloves, and displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors.
~ Emily Bronte
Shorthaired kittens may do fine with regular sessions using cat gloves.
~ Amy Shojai
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
~ Gene Tunney
The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
He was wearing his overalls and these thick work gloves—purple, and ridged. The gloves were a recent purchase. He got them made special in purple because that was my favorite color.
~ Laura Dave
I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
~ Taylor Swift
When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme caution when handling the stuff: with masks, gloves, gowns, goggles, all needed to protect him from danger. He then drills your teeth and rams the mixture into your cavities, whereupon it becomes miraculously, instantly safe!
~ Jasper Carrott
prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)
~ Robert Farrar Capon
The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.
~ Lewis Carroll
Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept
~ Lewis Carroll
White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he
~ Lewis Carroll
went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen. 'Mary Ann! Mary Ann!' said the voice. 'Fetch me my gloves this moment!' Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had
~ Lewis Carroll
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two.
~ Libba Bray
and I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself.......and as you can see, I took the hint.......but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear?
~ Louisa May Alcott
If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.
~ Ruth Stout
cartridge belts. Maybe wood smoke somewhere. Jacob was dark-eyed and pale. He had a young man's beard, only potential, the hint of black whiskers along his jaw looking like something black pressed under a thick pane of smoked glass. At one point he pulled off a glove with his teeth and left it dangling from his mouth as he, what?—opened a K ration? lit a cigarette? The condemned man's last. His bare hand was as white as bone, as small as a child's.
~ Alice McDermott
I knew gloves meant you were an adult and mittens meant you weren't.
~ Alice Sebold
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Because of the cold blowing up from the water, I put on my gloves, sighed for no good reason, as one is inclined to do at night beside a river, but then I wanted to walk on.
~ Franz Kafka
He took his furred hat from its peg and drew on his gloves.
~ John Crowley
No gloves cut a bit more, but that's not a problem if you don't fear blood.
~ Wanderlei Silva
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
~ W. P. Kinsella