Overcoat Quotes

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.