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Quotes About Collar

Never wear a button-down collared shirt with a double-breasted suit. The more formal double-breasted suit looks best with the more formal spread or long-point collar.
~ Roger Stone
I reflected how absurd it was for me to be buried in my coat collar despite the stifling heat, unable to make the slightest physical movement, like an insect playing dead.
~ K?b? Abe
His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.
~ Jamie O'Neill
Andrew Hale was a ruddy man with a big gray moustache and a stubbly double-chin unconstrained by a collar; but his scrupulously clean shirt was always fastened by a small diamond stud. This display of opulence was misleading, for though he did a fairly good business it was known that his easygoing habits and the demands of his large family frequently kept him what Starkfield called behind.
~ Edith Wharton
Otrera stayed dead the second time, Kinzie said, batting her eyes. We have to thank you for that. If you ever need a new girlfriend...well, I think you'd look great in an iron collar and an orange jumpsuit. Percy couldn't tell if she was kidding or not. He politely thanked her and changed seats.
~ Rick Riordan
I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.
~ Kelley Armstrong
was talking to that girl we were dancing with.' Bletchley ran his handkerchief round beneath his collar. 'Apparently he hardly makes anything out of it at all.
~ David Storey
Lavender's thoughts returned to the poetry, and Robert reading it, canting, rich-toned, about hands, kisses. It shall be you. Having no smelling salts nearby, Lavender moved matters to a more pragmatic realm. "I must warm the tea," she told Robert. For the pot had sat, untouched, for some time, and had surely cooled. (In the kitchen, she loosened her collar, to alleviate her overheated state, to avoid becoming a sweaty brook.)
~ Jeanette Lynes
precision in gardens was too much like turning a wolf on the prowl into a pug with an embroidered ruffle for a collar. She much preferred the wolf.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
I hate the polo collar.
~ Sean Faris
Lissa's guardians- she had a fleet now- walked with her. I was among them, wearing my finest black and white, including the red collar marking me as a royal guardian.
~ Richelle Mead
Punk!" Slowly the tired eyes turned from watching the street corner and looked at me without interest. "He will follow no one but his master," said the woman. The dog suffered my hand on his collar; he rose and shambled disheartenedly at my side, carrying the only luggage he possessed – his name and a broken heart.
~ Emily Carr
I signed a dog collar. Someone gave me their dog - a live dog - and I signed its collar. When they handed me the dog, I didn't know what to do. That was weird.
~ Daniel Ricciardo
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
~ Robert Benchley
His locked, lettered, braw brass collarShowed him the gentleman an' scholar.
~ Robert Burns
The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
~ zusak markus ii
Basic fairness and equity demand that the color of your collar should not dictate if you receive a bail-out or get bailed on.
~ John Fetterman
care, selected to match his personal taste. Champagne bottles weren't just opened, they were "sabered," a dramatic and theatrical process in which the force of a saber, slid along the body of the bottle toward the neck, snaps the collar from the neck of the bottle, leaving the cork intact but the bottle open.
~ Robert M. Edsel
Necklines usually need attention. A high neck just can't help getting powder smudges. For washables Mamacita lays the collar on the counter in the kitchen and uses a special spot cleaner along the soiled area. She lets it sit for ten minutes and then plunges the whole garment into cold water with cold-water liquid soap.
~ Joan Crawford
the long neck that extended from his stiff collar.
~ Lois Lowry
You have defiled my honor!" Stilgar cried. "This is neutral—" "Shut up!" Idaho glared at the shocked Naib. "You wear a collar, Stilgar! " It was one of the three most deadly insults which could be directed at a Fremen. Stilgar's face went pale. "You are a servant," Idaho said. "You've sold Fremen for their water." This was the second most deadly insult, the one which had destroyed the original Jacurutu.
~ Frank Herbert
You probably fucked a priest and now your baby's going to be a monkey. And it won't get born with a silver spoon in its mouth, it'll be wearing a little black and white collar like so- Little Mary jumps up and begins to dance around making hooh-hooh monkey sounds and putting her fingers to her neck. She's talented. She like the dark side, the devil version of her supersmart dad, Eddy.
~ Louise Erdrich
You're used to difficult women. To struggle. Perhaps you like it when they give you a bad time." "Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.… Do you mind if I unbutton my collar? It seems to be pressing on an artery.
~ Saul Bellow