Trousers Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

  Jilly Cooper

  Girl, People, Choices

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• We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

  Brian Blessed

  Theatre, Shirts, Used

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit -​ I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Song, White

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.40, Verso

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• PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adults, Males, Pants

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

  Ken Dodd

  Lonely, Dark, Men

  "The reviewer reviewed: 40 years of Michael Billington". Interview with Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2011.

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• I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

  Milla Jovovich

  Coats, Sensibility

  "Model Minute: Mila Jovovich". Interview with Chrissy Rutherford, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.

  J. L. Austin

  Real, Knowing, Negative

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• Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

  Andrew Scott

  Summer, Three, Length

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

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• It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Clothes, Pieces

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.

  Tom Ford

  Book, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you buy a Cartier ring you want people to know it is a Cartier ring or a diamond, or a piece of art that's giving an emotion - then people read it and say, "wow that's really amazing". With prêt-à-porter you see people in the street, in a club, in a restaurant or whatever, and you think, "Oh my god, he's wearing my trousers!" In a way it's more open - people can put together the way they want - mixed with other designers.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers "too clitty" and use words like "pussy pelmet" but they do. You are so shocked by what they are saying that by the time you have recovered and thought of something to say they have whipped you out of your jeans and eased you into a Lycra cat suit.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Cat, Jeans

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• What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

  Nancy Astor

  Men, Years, Length

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• You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.

  Francis Picabia

  Art, Taken, Men

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• Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

  Brian Clough

  Prime, Ministers, Caught

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.

  Louis Bayard

  Men, Names, Age

  Louis Bayard (2009). “The Black Tower: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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

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• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

  Jacki Weaver

  Beads, Sequins, Bits

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

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• On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Mouths, Way, Dignity

  Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.231, Quirk Books

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” “Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?” Harry shouted. He knew that Ron had no idea what he’d walked in on, knew he hadn’t done it on purpose, but he didn’t care — at this moment he hated everything about Ron, right down to the several inches of bare ankle showing beneath his pajama trousers.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Bed, Purpose

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• Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these," said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers. "I'm not putting them on," said old Archie in indignation. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Healthy, Ministry

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• I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

  Reif Larsen

  Regret, Italian, Thinking

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beach, Cat, Fighting

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.9, Hueber Verlag

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