Quotes about garter

A collection of quotes on the topic of garter.

Quotes about garter

“Titles are but nick-names, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. It reduces man into the diminutive of man in things which are great, and the counterfeit of women in things which are little. It talks about its fine blue ribbon like a girl, and shows its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity, says: "When I was a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."”

Thomas Paine book Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Let the gossip roll!
What to me are Hamlet's garters,
or the whirlwind of Salome's dance,
or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask?
I am more iron than they.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Poem without a Hero (1963)

“The Order of the Garter usually goes to people who already have full wardrobes.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish writer

More Unkempt Thoughts (1964)

“I had a garter snake named Clayton.”

Noel Fielding (1973) British comedian and actor

HermAphroditeZine, Autumn 1999

“There were few who thought him a starter,
Many who thought themselves smarter.
But he ended PM,
CH and OM,
an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1982)
Self-penned limerick.
1960s