“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

“I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“Hand in glove, the good people laugh, yes we may be hidden by rags,
But we've something they'll never have”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

“"Well, that glove's fulla vaseline."
"Vaseline? What the hell for?"
Well, I tell ya what — Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

“The lost glove is happy.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire

“Shoes: gloves for the feet.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

“A cat in gloves catches no mice. ”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …