As thin and neat as a furled umbrella.

-Emery,Jane
  On Rose Macaulay. Rose Macaulay.

Are you at ease now? Is your heart at rest? Now you have got a shadow, an umbrella To keep the scorching world's opinion From your fair credit. 328

-Fo, Dario
  Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, act 3, sc.1. Italian      playwright       and       actor-manager,       whose often

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.

-Lowell,James Russell
  'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

E M Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea. And I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

-Beauchamp
   Journal entry, May.