Quotes on clothing
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
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August Strindberg Quotes
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
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Linda Ellerbee Quotes
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
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Madeleine Vionnet Quotes
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
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Benny Hill Quotes
For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.
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William Wycherley Quotes
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit.
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Edward Tivnan Quotes
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
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John Ruskin Quotes
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
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Dorothy Parker Quotes
Every uniform corrupts one's character.
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Max Frisch Quotes
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
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Cecil Beaton Quotes
Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If I were a cat, what would make me purr? A pair of really comfortable blue jeans, and massages.
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Cinnamon Stomberger Quotes
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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Mark Twain Quotes
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
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Elizabeth Wilson Quotes
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
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Hardy Amies Quotes
When in doubt, wear red.
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Bill Blass Quotes
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Quentin Crisp Quotes
I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
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W. Dayton Wedgefarth Quotes
On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.
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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
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Helen Lawrenson Quotes
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
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Françoise Sagan Quotes
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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Lin Yutang Quotes
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
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Janet Lane Quotes
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
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Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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Christopher Morley Quotes
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
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P.G. Wodehouse Quotes
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
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Scott Adams Quotes
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
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John Taylor Quotes
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Author Unknown Quotes
Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.
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Levende Waters Quotes
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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Edna Woolman Chase Quotes
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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Epictetus Quotes
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain Quotes
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
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William Arnot Quotes
I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.
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Marilyn Monroe Quotes
What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
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Brendan Francis Quotes
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
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Herman Melville Quotes
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't.
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Bob Morris Quotes
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
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Andrée Putman Quotes
Probably wearing a red tie too many times.
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George W. Bush Quotes
His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes
To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.
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Wilhela Cushman Quotes
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
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James Laver Quotes
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
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James H. Boren Quotes
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What a strange power there is in clothing.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes