Dresses Quotes

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  A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Eyebrows, Icons

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress

  Lana Del Rey

  Party, Anthem, Succes

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• No matter how bad you may feel, get up, show up, dress up, and never, ever give up.

  Tim Love

  Giving Up, May, Matter

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• L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.

  Raf Simons

  Mean, Doe, Band

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• Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

  Mark Twain

  Neat And Tidy, Soul, Literature

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Women, Clothes You Wear

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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  The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

  Paris Hilton

  Life, Cute, Fashion

  FaceBook post by Paris Hilton from Sep 14, 2012

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Female, Pieces, Body

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

  Edith Head

  Inspiring, Fashion, Icons

  Edith Head (2011). “The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style, From A to Z”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

  Loretta Young

  Matter, Manners, Occasions

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• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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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

  Country, Struggle, Age

  1945 In the Ladies Home Journal.

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• Life is not a dress rehearsal.

  Rose Tremain

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  "Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Learning, Thinking

  Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

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• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Thinking, Two

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• An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

  Jacques Prevert

  Sweet, Food, Night

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Reality, Please Me

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• When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

  Vera Wang

  Dance, Wedding, Artist

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• They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

  Alison Lurie

  Women, Lying, Silence

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• Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

  George Washington

  Eye, Character, Men

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  Tea Leoni

  Awards, Clothes, Pay

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

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