Trousers Quotes - Page 3

• I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Cowboy

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• As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spring, Night, Men

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• I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Want, Suits

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.

  Hayley Mills

  Jeans, Dresses, T Shirt

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• The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Sight, Scotland

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 26, 1799.

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• Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

  Christopher Moore

  Ducks, Paper, Pants

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• I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Eye, Men, Hair

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• I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.

  Theophilus London

  Color, Tone, Shirts

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• The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Men, House, Church

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• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Shoes, People

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

  Jay Kay

  Crazy, Cutting, Doe

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• A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.

  Norman Lindsay

  Men, Testicles, Exposed

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• And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Book, Two

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• Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, Lying, Dark

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.22, Penguin

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• My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?

  Louise Rennison

  Girl, Cousin, Boys

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• Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Wool, Looks

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• I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

  Mika

  Kids, Ties, Bows

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• Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

  Austin O'Malley

  Reform, Vehement, Pairs

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• Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.

  Timothy Leary

  Christian, Sky, Giving

  "Timothy Leary's Last Trip". Documentary, 1997.

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• I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

  Anton du Beke

  Fun, Latin, Gold

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• Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

  Barbara Mertz

  Fire, Advice, Amelia Peabody

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• Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.

  Louise Rennison

  Toms

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fashion, Eye, Self

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• Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

  Loretta Chase

  Men, Brain, Size

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• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  Vince Cable

  Men, Breathing, Growth

  "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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