“It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.”

“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”

“They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.”

“She's so low, she could put on a tall, silk hat and walk under a duck!”

“Here's to the day when it is May
And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
Go tramping over the heather.”

“It's the bane of existence for anyone in comedy. 'The photograph must be funny!' So the people coordinating the shoot throw rubber chickens at you, 20 at a time. Or put a feathered hat on you. Or give you a clown nose. Of course, all of this makes you depressed, so you wind up looking more like you're promoting A Long Day's Journey Into Night.”

“From an early age. I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. My father died when I was 6 and we were really sad, so I put on a show for my mum. [In a mocking American accent] Looking back now, it was a kind of therapy.”

“He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!”

“Loud Threatnings make men stubborn, but kind Words
Pierce gentle Breasts sooner than sharpest Swords.”

“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?”