“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)
“I slowly strangle my enemies with a velvet glove.”
Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
Quoted in "Italienisch-ostafrika(1936-1941)" - Page 18 - by Stefan Plenk - 2008
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Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister… 1871–1956Related quotes
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
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“I beg your pardon I egg your noggin got nina up in my glove compartment.”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
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“I don't like people," said Velvet. "… I only like horses.”
Enid Bagnold book National Velvet
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“I thought you and he were hand-in-glove.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
William Hargreaves (1880–1941) English composer
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“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
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“I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe.”
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god. The idea of Glycon is Glycon, if I can enhance that idea with an anaconda and a speaking tube, fair enough. I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe. It’s a fiction, all gods are fiction. It’s just that I happen to think that fiction’s real. Or that it has its own reality, that is just as valid as ours. I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction – before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction. This is the most important world, the world of fictional things. That’s the world where all this starts.