Dresses Quotes - Page 21

• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Style, Rags, Dirt

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Littles, Poverty

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

  Martina Navratilova

  Mother, Memories, Hair

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Brown, Gravy

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• Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Saint, Modesty, Language

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Drama, Air, Play

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• It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

  David Hume

  Book, Eye, Air

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Voice, Looks, Life Is

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• Truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Truth, Shining

  "An Essay on Translated Verse" by Wentworth Dillon, line 216, 1684.

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• It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.

  Eustace Budgell

  Self, Ideas, Desire

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• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

  Susan Faludi

  Shopping, Clothes, Car

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

  Mary Frann

  Girlfriend, Jeans, Wish

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• When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

  Alec Baldwin

  House, Looks, Pool

  "Alec Baldwin Dresses as Jack Donaghy Every Night" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Makeup, Perfect

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• Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

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• Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Order

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person's sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Hands, Sorrow, Left Hand

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• I am so ready to be a mommy. I can't wait. I notice every little baby dress, every little baby toy, every little baby thing.

  Halle Berry

  Inspirational, Baby, Waiting

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• The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

  Elvis Costello

  Friendship, Party, Looks

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• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Tunes, Politics

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• If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

  B. B. King

  People, Want, Singers

  "I've earned the right to sit down" by Julian Piper, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Queens, Want, Parades

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Paris, Way, Should

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