Waistcoat Quotes

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs. - Charles Dickens

Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, / White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat / Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it. - Arthur Hugh Clough

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. - Tom Hiddleston

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. - Bram Stoker

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat. - Charles H Spurgeon

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. - Charles Dickens