Coat Quotes

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.

The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it.

When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I’ve already justified buying seven coats!