Trousers Quotes - Page 6

• All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Fashion, Two, Sweaters

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• What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Fashion, What If, Worn

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• I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

  Bill Bryson

  Fashion, Moving, Pieces

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.

  Val McDermid

  Fashion, Thinking, Hands

  Val McDermid (2009). “Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4)”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

  Bella Heathcote

  Fashion, Men, Stuff

  "Taking Five with Bella Heathcote and Phoebe Tonkin". Interview with Sal Morgan, www.vogue.com.au. November 15, 2012.

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• Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Alcohol, Superstitions

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• In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

  Paul Merton

  Couple, Men, Comedian

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• The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

  Simon Schama

  Depressing, Golf, Decay

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• A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Making Love

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

  Charles Dickens

  Reading, Writing, Character

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

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• Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Honor, Thieves

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• Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Different, Pairs

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• So I went down my local ice-cream shop, and said 'I want to buy an ice-cream'. He said Hundreds & thousands?' I said 'We'll start with one.' He said 'Knickerbocker glory?' I said 'I do get a certain amount of freedom in these trousers, yes.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• Trousers can never be too tight. You have to go through a couple of days of pain, then everything stretches out.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Pain, Couple

  "This much I know". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2008.

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• The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

  Lennox Lewis

  Pieces, Flesh, Facts

  "The wrap: Dismay at State of the Union address" by Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

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• I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

  Caitlin Moran

  Airports, Squares, Feminist

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