(62 quotes found)
“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.”
William Shakespeare
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”
Carl Sandburg
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
Charles de Gaulle
“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.”
Joseph R. McCarthy
“A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?”
Clara Barton
“It's hard to wring my hands when I am busy rolling up my sleeves”
Linda Geraci
“It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.”
Walter Kerr
“Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.”
T.S. Eliot
“and I have a hunch that [husband] Blake [Edwards] has got something up his sleeve.”
Julie Andrews
“Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve”
Chinese Proverbs
