Dresses Quotes - Page 30

• The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Men, Foolish Man

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.249

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• When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

  Timothy Leary

  Men, Suits Of Armor, Bully

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.127, Ronin Publishing

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• Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Amusement, World

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.248

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• Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Hypocrisy, Costumes

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.256, Macmillan

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• The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Fashion, Taste, Obstinate

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.107, Diderot Publishing

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• Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death , and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Teaching, Independence

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cutting, People, Way

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• Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Belief, Crabs, Seaweed

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• More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Office, Shops

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• But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.

  Henry Fairlie

  Morning, Heart, Doors

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.128, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

  Horace Mann

  Fashion, Middle

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.112

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• The moon ... is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Queens, Moon, White

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• I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

  Jessie J

  Beautiful, Thinking, Media

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

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• When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

  Lauren Conrad

  Growing Up, Fun, Nice

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• Expression is the dress of thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression

  1711 An Essay on Criticism, l.318.

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• We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fashion, Following

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• The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Problem

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

  Blake Lively

  Cute, Girl, Sexy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think people respond to truthful, simple narrative, and the more you try to dress it up to try and do something else, the harder it is for people to relate to.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Simple, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they can put you. And quite often, and we're all guilty of this is our lives, we judge very quickly and we pigeon-hole people very quickly based on how they look and how they talk and how they dress and we think: "Oh yeah, we know who you are."

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, People, Judging

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

  Eddie Izzard

  Powerful, Tears, Culture

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Devil, May, Modern

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Car, Logos

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• I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers on a scale or a dress size. It doesn't mean that I have gotten over all of it myself, because I have good days and bad days just like everyone else.

  Stacy London

  Struggle, Mean, Good Day

  "Stacy London Tells You Why Clothes Can Change The Way You Feel About Yourself". Interview with Holly Corbett, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, whether you're going to change in the future and dress it as it is. The fact is you can always find clothes. It may be harder for plus sized people, I completely understand that. But I don't believe that it's impossible to dress with style.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Thinking, Clothes

  "The Dr. Drew Show", edition.cnn.com. October 16, 2012.

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