Hats Quotes
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“Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys

“All those poor elves I haven鈥檛 set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren鈥檛 enough hats!”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.”
― Kingdom of the Wicked
― Kingdom of the Wicked

“It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.”
― The Luxe
― The Luxe

“Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn鈥檛 waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn鈥檛 been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.”
― The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
― The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
― If I Were a Man
― If I Were a Man

“For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.”
― Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars
― Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars

“Personally I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat, or you can't wear a hat."锘�”
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“[about a hat]
You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.”
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You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.”
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“When we entered a classroom we always tossed our caps on the floor, to free our hands; as soon as we crossed the threshold we would throw them under the bench so hard that they struck the wall and raised a cloud of dust; this was "the way it should be done."
But the new boy either failed to notice this maneuver or was too shy to perform it himself, for he was still holding his cap on his lap at the end of the prayer. It was a head-gear of composite nature, combining elements of the busby, the lancer cap, the round hat, the otter-skin cap and the cotton nightcap--one of those wretched things whose mute ugliness has great depths of expression, like an idiot's face. Egg-shaped and stiffened by whalebone, it began with three rounded bands, followed by alternating diamond-shaped patches of velvet and rabbit fur separated by a red stripe, and finally there was a kind of bag terminating in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complicated braid. A network of gold wire was attached to the top of this polygon by a long, extremely thin cord, forming a kind of tassel. The cap was new; its visor was shiny.
"Stand up," said the teacher.
He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh.
He bent down and picked it up. A boy beside him knocked it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once again.
"Will you please put your helmet away?" said the teacher, a witty man.”
― Madame Bovary
But the new boy either failed to notice this maneuver or was too shy to perform it himself, for he was still holding his cap on his lap at the end of the prayer. It was a head-gear of composite nature, combining elements of the busby, the lancer cap, the round hat, the otter-skin cap and the cotton nightcap--one of those wretched things whose mute ugliness has great depths of expression, like an idiot's face. Egg-shaped and stiffened by whalebone, it began with three rounded bands, followed by alternating diamond-shaped patches of velvet and rabbit fur separated by a red stripe, and finally there was a kind of bag terminating in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complicated braid. A network of gold wire was attached to the top of this polygon by a long, extremely thin cord, forming a kind of tassel. The cap was new; its visor was shiny.
"Stand up," said the teacher.
He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh.
He bent down and picked it up. A boy beside him knocked it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once again.
"Will you please put your helmet away?" said the teacher, a witty man.”
― Madame Bovary

“it wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.”
― Witches Abroad
― Witches Abroad

“Ah! Speak of the devil, and you find her in your hat.”
― Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess
― Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess

“I recommend the French beret, for it gives the impression of just the right soft toughness, a veritable wave of sophisticated brain matter. It is the kind of hat that inspires a person to grow into it, to become the person they never knew they could be. The space between the top of the head and the beginnings of hat is among the most intimate of areas: earlobe behinds, elbow insides, and anuses. One must pay heed to such spaces for they hold a potential not fully known (but generally agreed to be vast).”
― Love Letters to the World
― Love Letters to the World

“The Kraken was somewhat obsessed with posture. As for Lily, she barely gave it a second thought. In her opinion it was better to read books than balance them. That鈥檚 what they were designed for, after all. And if you wanted to wear something on your head there was a perfectly good item designed for that too: it was called a hat.”
― Cogheart
― Cogheart

“I sell hats. The only kind I sell are living ducks. When you wear one on your head, no longer will the insult, 鈥淵ou must have eggs for brains!鈥� carry any sting.”
― Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world
― Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“What a shocking bad hat!' was the phrase that was next in vogue. No sooner had it become universal, than thousands of idle but sharp eyes were on the watch for the passenger whose hat shewed any signs, however slight, of ancient service. Immediately the cry arose, and, like the war-whoop of the Indians, was repeated by a hundred discordant throats. He was a wise man who, finding himself under these circumstances 'the observed of all observers,' bore his honours meekly. He who shewed symptoms of ill-feeling at the imputations cast upon his hat, only brought upon himself redoubled notice. The mob soon perceive whether a man is irritable, and, if of their own class, they love to make sport of him. When such a man, and with such a hat, passed in those days through a crowded neighbourhood, he might think himself fortunate if his annoyances were confined to the shouts and cries of the populace. The obnoxious hat was often snatched from his head and thrown into the gutter by some practical joker, and then raised, covered with mud, upon the end of a stick, for the admiration of the spectators, who held their sides with laughter, and exclaimed, in the pauses of their mirth, 'Oh, what a shocking bad hat!' 'What a shocking bad hat!' Many a nervous poor man, whose purse could but ill spare the outlay, doubtless purchased a new hat before the time, in order to avoid exposure in this manner.”
― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
― Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

“Buttoning up my new damson wool redingote, I put on my other new purchases, a hat trimmed with sable and matching muff and tippet. I had at last found costumes that suited my character: gowns in rich sapphire blues, purples, and emeralds, tight-sleeved and high-waisted. Our neighbor the milliner had taught me a voguish way with broad-brimmed hats, worn at the tilt Van Dyke fashion, with feathers and rosettes.”
― A Taste for Nightshade
― A Taste for Nightshade

“By all accounts Rafe's life had been shattered by the loss of his brother Peter. But whereas she turned away from drink when Draven died, Rafe had simply upended a barrel of brandy on his head and hadn't taken that hat off since.”
― The Taming of the Duke
― The Taming of the Duke

“Hoelun stepped into her tent with thyme in her coatskirts that were hitched up in her belt, and leeks in her hat, that was off. The blue spire of bark she had worn as Yesugei's wife never left her, but often did more than perch on her head.”
― Against Walls
― Against Walls

“Seems hats have been on top
Of all the stages comings and goings
Helping us remember heroes and idols”
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Of all the stages comings and goings
Helping us remember heroes and idols”
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“That鈥檚 a trilby,鈥� I said, referring to Mr. Mitchell鈥檚 hat and trying to show off at least some expertise.
鈥淣amed from du Maurier鈥檚 novel, later made into a play,鈥� said Oscar. 鈥淚t was a style worn on stage.鈥�
鈥淵ou mean Rebecca?鈥�
鈥淣o, Rosemary. George du Maurier鈥檚 Trilby. Not Daphne. That was his granddaughter. Now, Trilby also introduced into common usage the name Svengali. You see, it鈥檚 a story about power, about control . . .”
― The Secret of Lost Things
鈥淣amed from du Maurier鈥檚 novel, later made into a play,鈥� said Oscar. 鈥淚t was a style worn on stage.鈥�
鈥淵ou mean Rebecca?鈥�
鈥淣o, Rosemary. George du Maurier鈥檚 Trilby. Not Daphne. That was his granddaughter. Now, Trilby also introduced into common usage the name Svengali. You see, it鈥檚 a story about power, about control . . .”
― The Secret of Lost Things

“(My copy of Hall's 'Secret Teachings of All Ages' has a really neat picture of Shakespeare with an onionskin engraving of Bacon that you can lay over it to see what Shakespeare would have looked like in a fruity hat. I truly recommend this book.)”
― Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast
― Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast

“A Dutchman stepped out of his house and asked two British Soldiers if they would like a cup of tea. A little further back along the route they had come, the bodies of British paratroopers lay 'everywhere, many of them behind trees or poles', Albert Horstman of the Arnhem underground recorded. He then saw 'a man about middle-aged, who wore a hat. This man went to every dead soldier, lifted his hat and stood in silence for a few seconds.”
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“A hat is the expression of a woman鈥檚 soul. It is something she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is her challenge to the world. She does not wear it to keep warm, or to provide a shade from the sun, though it may do those things too. She wears it to please a husband or a sweetheart, or to get one. She wears it to make other women jealous, sometimes, and sometimes she wears it to get a job. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, and smart, and sure of herself, if it is the right hat.”
― Talking Through My Hats
― Talking Through My Hats
“Believe me, I have made many hats. Perhaps I have made more hats than any other one woman in the world. And with each hat is a story. It is the story of the woman who wore the hat, and why she bought it; the people she loved and the people she hated; the places she went and the things that happened to her, perhaps because of the hat.
You see, a woman鈥檚 hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: 鈥淪ee, this is what I am like!~鈥� or 鈥� 鈥淭his is how I should like to be.”
― Talking Through My Hats
You see, a woman鈥檚 hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: 鈥淪ee, this is what I am like!~鈥� or 鈥� 鈥淭his is how I should like to be.”
― Talking Through My Hats
“. . . . I think of the women who have bought my hats. Some have been duchesses and some have been queens. Some have been famous actresses and some have been no better than they should be. Some have been great ladies of society, and some have been shopgirls and stenographers, not famous at all. These last I like to think of best, because a hat to them was worth going without lunches for a month.
So many hats. So many women. They would make a picture story of our times.”
― Talking Through My Hats
So many hats. So many women. They would make a picture story of our times.”
― Talking Through My Hats
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