Top 30 Cloak Quotes

I’ve always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.

The Supreme Court’s only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

‘Homeland’ is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

It’s the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

As was the case in ‘Darth Plagueis’ – even going back as far as ‘Cloak of Deception’ – I was well aware that I was writing what used to be called ‘men’s adventure’ fiction.

I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix’s vault on this film. And I’ve taken my wand and I’ve got my cloak.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don’t yet see a philosopher.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight ‘method’ actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape – it is quite terrifying. But I really wanted to talk to him because ‘Robin Hood’ was one of my favourite films.

I would relish a role that really shows a bit of background into how the bad guy got the way he is… a little more complex than cackling behind a hooded cloak.

I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else’s skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off – you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want to air their views, but it’s about provoking violent reactions. We all can easily see that this is not about free speech.

I’m often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that’s never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook’s ‘Somebody’s Baby’ or Nina Berberova’s ‘The Tattered Cloak.’

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

I just think that for a lot of people – not to take the focus off of myself – that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

It’s so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There’s definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can’t blame lawyers anymore for the ‘liability’ vs. common sense imbalance.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.