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You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

topic: Pockets, Handkerchiefs, Showy

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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Crisis, Handkerchiefs, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O Hara

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Men, Attacking, Handkerchiefs

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.163, Pan Macmillan

topic: White, Handkerchiefs, Perpetual

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.221, University of Illinois Press

topic: Pockets, Genuine, Handkerchiefs

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

topic: Astonishment, Silent, Handkerchiefs

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

- Frederick Buechner

source: Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Flirting, Saint, World, Handkerchiefs, Flirtation

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Kings, Hem, Stones, Handkerchiefs

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

- Fanny Kemble

topic: Weather, People, Curiosity, Handkerchiefs

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

- Louis J. Camuti

source: Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

topic: Cat, Pockets, Want, Handkerchiefs, Funny Cat

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

- Rachel Maddow

topic: Luck, Ladders, Pockets, Handkerchiefs

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Art, Blow, Noses, Handkerchiefs

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

topic: Blood, Stranger, Intimate, Handkerchiefs, Intimate Friends

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

- Jude Law

topic: Thinking, Pockets, Shy, Showy, Handkerchiefs

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

- Compton Mackenzie

source: 'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

topic: Pieces, Cucumbers, Bread, Handkerchiefs, Bread And Butter

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

- Herb Caen

topic: Land, Cities, Two, Handkerchiefs

Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day. You'll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned: Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.

- Bernie Siegel

source: Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.58, Random House

topic: Love, Beautiful, Eye, Handkerchiefs, Afraid To Love

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

- Brad Meltzer

topic: Lust, Pockets, Underwear, Handkerchiefs

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

- James Naismith

topic: Basketball, Needs, Invention, Handkerchiefs, Famous Basketball

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

- Orson Scott Card

source: Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.230, Macmillan

topic: Prayer, Thinking, Wife, Handkerchiefs, Coughing

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

topic: Life, Positive, Girl, Handkerchiefs

Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

- A. A. Milne

source: A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.48, Egmont UK

topic: Blow, Once Upon A Time, Foxes, Stockings, Handkerchiefs

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

source: Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Spring, Blue, Wind, Handkerchiefs, Silk

They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.

- Jennifer Donnelly

topic: Memories, Tangled, Bird, Handkerchiefs, Windowpane

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Running, Long Ago, Age, Handkerchiefs

I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs.

- Jack Benny

topic: My Girl, Handkerchiefs

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

- Robert Schumann

topic: Heart, Names, Joy, Handkerchiefs, Tears Of Sorrow

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

- Hilary Mantel

topic: Age, Bags, Cry, Handkerchiefs

Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

- E. B. White

source: "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

topic: Book, Men, Thinking, Handkerchiefs

For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

- Hugh Bonneville

source: "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

topic: Reading, Needs, Lasts, Handkerchiefs, Terminal

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

- Laura Linney

topic: Sweet, Aunt, Remember, Something Sweet, Handkerchiefs

The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Summer, Goodbye, Song, Handkerchiefs

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

topic: Men, Thumbs, Never Trust, Handkerchiefs, Never Trust A Man

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

source: Lewis Carroll (1893). “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Fully Illustrated)”, p.136, LCI

topic: Thinking, Stories, Cry, Handkerchiefs

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Meaningful, Ivy, Profound, Embellishment, Handkerchiefs

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

- Jeff Foxworthy

source: Jeff Foxworthy, David Boyd (2004). “You might be a redneck if--”, Rutledge Hill Pr

topic: Sports, Mother, School, Hunting Dog, Driveway

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

- Alain de Botton

source: Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Beautiful, Falling In Love, Journey, Handkerchiefs, Beautiful Person

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

- Malcolm X

topic: Uncles, Mean, Men, Handkerchiefs, Reverends

The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.

- Kim Do-Jin

topic: Sorry, Giving, Waiting, Handkerchiefs, I'm Sorry

She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Teacher, Hair, Giving, Handkerchiefs, Scissors

...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Truth, Lying, Real, Handkerchiefs, Chagrin

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

- Georgette Heyer

topic: Mean, Missing, Said, Handkerchiefs

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.

- Halton Arp

topic: Stars, Science, Clouds, Handkerchiefs, Astronomers

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

topic: Men, Two, Doors, Handkerchiefs, Solicitude

All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.

- LeRoy Pope Walker

topic: Blood, Results, Secession, Handkerchiefs

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Voice, People, Needs, Handkerchiefs, Quiet Place

The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts.

- Guus Kuijer

topic: Rain, Sadness, Eye, Handkerchiefs, Profound Sadness

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

- Raymond Chandler