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• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Reality, Perception

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• Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

  Jeremy Collier

  Order, Argument, Reason

  Jeremy Collier, Thomas Lathbury (1852). “An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain: Chiefly of England: from the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second ; with a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland Collected from the Best Ancient Historians, Councils, and Records”, p.440

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• Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sex, Food, Jersey

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• Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.

  Randall Jarrell

  Clothes, Hair, Naked

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 331, 1969.

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• It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed.

  Iris Apfel

  Wells, Comfortable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Names, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• The nude alone is well dressed

  Auguste Rodin

  Wells

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• Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
  [Though a lie be well dressed, it is ever overcome.]

  George Herbert

  Lying, Overcoming, Wells

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, People, Unhappy

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Home, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Dressing Up, Looks

  "INTERVIEW: Iris Apfel, Fashion Legends Never Cease". Interview with Roger Walker-Dack, www.thegayuk.com. August 14, 2015.

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• Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.

  Joleon Lescott

  Effort, Looks, Wells

  Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.

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• The Nazis were well dressed. Today's racists are a rag-tag bunch with no sense of style or panache.

  Dov Davidoff

  Style, Today, Tag

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Oct 19, 2011

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• Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Contentment, Rags

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

  Oscar Wilde

  America, People, World

  Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.177, University of Illinois Press

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• When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Beautiful, Winter, Wrinkles

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.31, Bantam

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• I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Song, Men, Healthy

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

  Cassandra Clare

  Air, Wells, Ragnor Fell

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  President, Drs, Conservative

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• I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Unhappy

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• These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Gun, Arrows

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• You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

  Iris Apfel

  Life Changing, Looks, Matter

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