Dresses Quotes - Page 28

• I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

  Wallis Simpson

  Beautiful, Looks, Can Do

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• Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

  John Milton

  Country, Herbs, Neat

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.396

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• Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

  Zoran

  Cutting, Land, Clothes

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• In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

  Moliere

  Men, Clothes, Giving

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Care

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• I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

  Sarah Burton

  Wall, Kids, Campaigns

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• I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Fun, Reality, Playing Dress Up

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson: The Bemused Exasperation Expert". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.

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• A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Devil, Dishes

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

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• I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

  Brian McKnight

  Mean, Gentleman, Walks

  "Celebrity Collector: Brian McKnight". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

  Channing Tatum

  Mirrors, Directors, Looks

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• 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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• Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, White, Simplicity

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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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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.

  Stella McCartney

  Sexy, Attitude, Black

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• I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.

  Dee Rees

  Girl, Baseball, Black And White

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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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• 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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• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Weather, California, Style

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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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• 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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• The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Cities, House, Design

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