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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Hat Quotes

How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5. Ophelia appears to have gone mad and is singing about the loss of true love, pondering if that love was really true. She is clearly referring to Hamlet.

EIGHTY. About ze right number of hats to pack for a veekend avay.

– Sacha Baron Cohen

Bruno, Marie Claire magazine.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry, ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!’
– Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, Epigraph. The gold hat and bouncing high represent the wealth and social status Jay Gatsby displays to get the attention and affection of Daisy.

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn’t going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

– Glenn Tipton

When I embraced the rock hat, when I put it on two or three years ago, when I realized I’m gonna go and make really focused rock albums, it felt like wearing an old shoe. It was a perfect fit.

– Glenn Hughes

Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don’t have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

– Hanya Yanagihara

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it’s a conversation piece.

– Hedda Hopper

What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We’re combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat – what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.

– Howie Mandel

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned – not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

– George W. S. Trow

If you ain’t got your black hat, there ain’t no use in filling out an application.

– Greg Moore

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

– Gustav Mahler

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I’d dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

– Illeana Douglas

I don’t think I’m alarmist. I’m more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you’ve got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

– John Ridley

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

– Joan Collins

I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

– Jane Lynch

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.

– Jay-Z

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

– Henry David Thoreau

I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.

– Jason Aldean

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody’s in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

– John Malkovich

The only person that anybody’s ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don’t wear a hat.

– Jason Aldean

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished – if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

– Johnny Van Zant

The last time I went to a festival without a hat, two things happened. One: I got sunstroke. Secondly, I had to buy what can only be described as a Jamiroquai hat, which was sartorially incorrect – I’m saying that as a Jamiroquai fan. That was a disaster. I looked like a small clown.

– Jamie Cullum

I may be the prat in the hat, that’s cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

– Jay Kay

I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don’t want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn’t work for me.

– Ian Frazier

I’m really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I’m almost paranoid very easily, and that’s who I am.

– Andy Dick

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he’d managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

– Alex Cox

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don’t think that would have worked out.

– Alice Waters

Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.

– Craig Brown

In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I’ll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It’s all about the accessories.

– Alessandra Ambrosio

When I want to be incognito, I don’t wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

– Amelie Nothomb

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