Bonnets Quotes

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.

Irving Berlin

Easter, Parades, Frills

Song: Easter Parade 1933

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Victor Hugo

Dream, White, Order

Victor Hugo (18??). “Les miserables. Pt. 1”

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I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Romola Garai

Being Pretty, I Can

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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.

Andrew Davies

Thinking, People

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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

Walter Scott

Horse, Men, Rooms

'The Doom of Devorgoil' (1830) act 2, sc. 2 'Bonny Dundee'.

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I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

Janeane Garofalo

Waiting, Pennsylvania, Culture

"Janeane Garofalo". TV comedy special, 1997.

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Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Anna Paquin

Years, People, Nine

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I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!

Emily Dickinson

Squirrels, Rose, News

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Margaret Mitchell

Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Hermann Bondi

Opportunity, Usual, Buzz

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What we want, we have for our pains
The promise that if we but wait
Till the want has burned out of our brains,
Every means shall be present to state;
While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold,
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old,
When we've matched our buttons the pattern is sold,
And everything comes too late-too late.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Time, Pain, Mean

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Oscar Wilde

Memories, Should Have, Should

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1133, GENERAL PRESS

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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

Mark Haddon

Car, Mind, Abnormal

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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

Muriel Barbery

Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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I haven't a clue about the biology or the psychology involved when a person dissolves into tears, but it is quite fascinating to note what turns them on. There are wives who can cascade over a late husband or a burned dinner, and equally pour tears of joy over a new bonnet or a renovated bathroom.... A while ago I took a ship back from Europe. Amid the tumbling confetti ... I found myself misty-eyed watching a young lady waving a tearful farewell to her boyfriend on the dock. I couldn't figure out if I was crying at her plight, or in delight that he wasn't coming along with us.

Malcolm Forbes

Husband, Farewell, Europe

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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

Robert Herrick

Eye, Brave, Bees

Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Love, War, Names

'American Names' (1927)

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… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.

Miranda July

Real, Eye, Sound

Miranda July (2011). “It Chooses You”, p.14, Canongate Books

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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

Olivia Colman

Girl, School, Laughing

"How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

Charles Dickens

Funny, Humorous, Green

Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.159, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

Anna Godbersen

Thinking, Faces, Opinion

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George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.

George Harrison

Wind, Laughing, Worry

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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.

Gunter Grass

Heart, Moon, Men

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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

Fanny Fern

Giving, Justice, Flattery

Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.31

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On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the financial heart of London, and a young girl got out and paid the driver. She was a person of sixteen or so--alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blond hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

Philip Pullman

Girl, Eye, Heart

Philip Pullman (2017). “The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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