Tweed Quotes

• To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

  Dwyane Wade

  Suits You, People, Mature

  “Dwyane Wade's Five Steps to Off-Court Style” by Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

  Hermione Gingold

  Women, Belief, Contrary

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" by Ned Sherrin, 1995.

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Jeans, Hot

  "Rachel Zoe's Style DOs and DON'Ts" by Rachel Zoe, www.glamour.com. August 12, 2012.

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• I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Long, Dresses, Dress Code

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Foetal Attraction”, p.48, Random House

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• Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

  Peter De Vries

  Soul, Coats, Confession

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• I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

  Milla Jovovich

  Masculine And Feminine, Mixing, Looks

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

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• I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

  Stephen Fry

  Cambridge, Grows, Corners

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• Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.

  Woody Allen

  Cutting, Guy, Intellectual

  "Sleeper". www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Food, Two, Smell

  Evelyn Waugh (1930). “Labels: A Mediterranean Journal”

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• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Buttons, Graduates, Shirts

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• If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Looks

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• The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Cutting, Islands

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• Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

  Johnny Weir

  Trying, Skating, Littles

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• My depth of purse is not so great
  Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,
  That merely buying doth elate:
  The books I buy I like to read:
  Still e'en when dawdling in a mead,
  Beneath a cloudless summer sky,
  By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed,
  The books I read — I like to buy.

  A. Edward Newton

  Summer, Book, Sky

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• I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

  Margot Asquith

  Country, Book, Years

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

  L. Neil Smith

  War, Usa, Long

  "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. October 02, 2005.

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• The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

  Alan Bennett

  Running, School, Class

  1968 Forty Years On (published 1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tarot, Boards

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• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

  Charles Frazier

  Beautiful, Father, School

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Boss

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