Clothing Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Henry David Thoreau,
Mark Twain
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| Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. |
| - Scott Adams |
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| There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. |
| - Joseph Addison |
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| Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. |
| - Jane Austen |
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| Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. |
| - Honoré de Balzac |
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| Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? |
| - Roland Barthes |
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| On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. |
| - Elizabeth Bowen |
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| I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. |
| - Quentin Crisp |
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| Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. |
| - Charles Dickens |
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| If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? |
| - Linda Ellerbee |
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| I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. |
| - Epictetus |
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| What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. |
| - Brendan Francis |
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| Every uniform corrupts one's character. |
| - Max Frisch |
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| Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. |
| - Sydney J. Harris |
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| Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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| I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. |
| - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe. |
| - Benny Hill |
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| I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. |
| - Yves Saint Laurent |
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| Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. |
| - James Laver |
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| Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. |
| - James Laver |
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| Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. |
| - Lynn Lavner |
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| Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! |
| - Herman Melville |
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| I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot. |
| - Marilyn Monroe |
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| High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Never wear anything that panics the cat. |
| - P.J. O'Rourke |
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| Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
| - Dorothy Parker |
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| I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. |
| - Gilda Radner |
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| Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you? |
| - Flash Rosenberg |
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| As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. |
| - John Ruskin |
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| A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. |
| - Françoise Sagan |
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| All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| What a strange power there is in clothing. |
| - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. |
| - Philip Dormer Stanhope |
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| His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. |
| - Philip Dormer Stanhope |
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| A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. |
| - Laurence Sterne |
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| The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. |
| - John Taylor |
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| Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? |
| - P.G. Wodehouse |
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| There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. |
| - Virginia Woolf |
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| All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. |
| - Lin Yutang |
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| I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. |
| - Lin Yutang |
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