Overcoat Quotes

Yes, we know he liked a drink and we know he was homosexual, but he still remains a terribly, terribly private man. All I had to go on was a couple of interviews - one after Corbett (Harry H. Corbett) died - and Brambell`s autobiography. Unfortunately, the book doesn`t really tell you anything. Off-stage, he was a bit of a dandy. Always immaculately turned out. Overcoat, hat, cane, clean-shaven, cut-glass English accent ... he even had a different set of teeth. (On playing Wilfrid Brambell in The Curse of Steptoe (2008) (TV))

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.