My tunic is nearer than my cloak. [ Plaut ]
God save you, and give you a cloak. [ Proverb ]
Because my blessings are abus'd,
Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd?
Even virtue's self by knaves is made
A cloak to carry on the trade. [ Gay ]
A fool wants his cloak in a rainy day. [ Proverb ]
Though the sun shines, take your cloak. [ Proverb ]
Pride may lurk under a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]
I have a good cloak, but it is in France. [ Proverb ]
The smiler with the knife under his cloak. [ Chaucer ]
The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. [ Italian Proverb ]
Have not your cloak to make when it begins to rain. [ Proverb ]
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. [ Fielding ]
Although the sun shines, leave not thy cloak at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]
I will do my good will, as he that threshed in his cloak. [ Proverb ]
Neither coat nor cloak will hold out against rain upon rain. [ Proverb ]
Pride perceiving humility honorable often borrows her cloak. [ Proverb ]
Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. [ Bunyan ]
Every vice has a cloak, and creeps in under the name of virtue.
Night is the cloak to cover sin, and the armor of the unjust man. [ Theophrastus ]
I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion will make a cloak. [ Sir William Waller ]
The beads in the hand, and the devil in capuch (or cape of the cloak). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please. [ French Proverb ]
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. [ Longfellow ]
Beauty is often but a splendid cloak which conceals the imperfections of the soul. [ T. Gautier ]
Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. [ Leighton ]
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]