Quotes with dress

  • My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
  • Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
  • If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
  • Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
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  • Lin Yü-tang All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Coco Chanel Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Francoise Sagan A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Carolina Herrera A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Jacques Prevert An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Mark Twain Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • William Blake Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Coco Chanel Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Billy Crudup Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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