Thick skin can refer to:
- The ability to withstand criticism.
- Literally thick skin covering the body of an animal, such as an elephant or rhinoceros.
- Callus, an area of thickened skin
- Callus (disambiguation), similar uses of Callus such as a lack of empathy (callousness).
- Thick Skinned, a 1989 French film
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Famous quotes containing the words thick skin, thick and/or skin:
“One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“When Paul Bunyan’s loggers roofed an Oregon bunkhouse with shakes, fog was so thick that they shingled forty feet into space before discovering they had passed the last rafter.”
—State of Oregon, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.’”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)