Dandy Quotes

• Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

  George M. Cohan

  Movie, Thank You, Mother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sleep, Mirrors, Sublime

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• A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Office

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Vulgar

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

  Josh Billings

  Clothes, Form, Intellect

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• Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

  Albert Camus

  Progress, Revolution, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  "Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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• Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Vision, Able

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• Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
  What is the Dandy?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eternal, Superiority

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Want, Majestic

  "Standing Up For Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. July 28, 1973.

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• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

  Sarah Zettel

  Character, Thinking, People

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• A Dandy does nothing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Doe, Idleness

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Silly, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the novels. She had read any number of them, from Fielding to Thomas Mann. They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane from the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Eye, Numbers

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• One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.

  George Carlin

  August, Hours, Fine

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• The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sprung Up, Clothes, Effort

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Unbearable, Arms

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• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Simple, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [154]

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• I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

  Ron Kovic

  Memorial Day, Home, Yankees

  Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Dancing, Toes

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• I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants!

  Chris Farley

  Sheep, Chocolate, Pudding

  "Fictional character: Mike Donnelly". "Black Sheep", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

  Susan Sontag

  Mass Culture, Age, Matter

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

  Johnny Carson

  Facts, Sides, Making Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

  Sean Pertwee

  Carpe Diem, Boots, Pairs

  "Pertwee reveals sexual panting". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. February 20, 2008.

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• Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

  Roald Dahl

  Candy

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