“The smiler with the knife under the cloak”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.”
Charles Stanley
“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous”
William Proxmire
“Folly is the cloak of knavery.”
William Blake
“Shame is pride's cloak.”
“Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, ready."”
William Stafford
