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Quotes About Dress

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
~ Jim Butcher
Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am. "That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.
~ Jim Butcher
The Night is young & full of rest I can't describe the way she's dress'd She'll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
~ Jim Morrison
One day we are looking at the Magnum photograph of Sophia Loren at the Christian Dior show in Paris in 1968 and thinking yes, it could be me, I could wear that dress, I was in Paris that year; a blink of the eye later we are in one or another doctor's office being told what has already gone wrong, why we will never again wear the red suede sandals with the four-inch heels, never again wear the gold hoop earrings, the enameled beads, never now wear the dress Sophia Loren is wearing.
~ Joan Didion
The bride wore a long white peau de soie dress and carried a shower bouquet of sweetheart roses with stephanotis streamers. A coronet of seed pearls held her illusion veil.
~ Joan Didion
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
~ Imelda Marcos
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
~ Virginia Woolf
Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.
~ J. Cole
Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong.
~ Rachel Caine
I approached a small table at the far corner of the Sky Garden and saw Akemi sitting nearby, studying a math textbook. She wore a demure, long-sleeved, knee-length white lace dress, black patent leather Mary Jane shoes, and on the floor was her school backpack that said ICS-Tokyo and was adorned with pastel ribbons, bows, and lace.
~ Rachel Cohn
The singing wasn't the hopscotch-jumprope-happy kind. This was the kind of singing that, if you tracked it to its source, you might find a little girl in a moldy old burial dress, her skin pitted & green, with lots of coffin splinters & dirt between her teeth... ...like a mermaid luring idiot sailors...Winny wasn't a sailor, & he wasn't old enough to get all sexed up by some hot siren.
~ Dean Koontz
Bitter disappointment pushed tears from her eyes. Now what's wrong? I said you could wear it. She drew in a shaky breath. I w-wanted you to l-like my dreeessssss. He moved his gaze over her. The gown makes my mouth water, love.
~ Deeanne Gist
breeches and a rough smock
~ Diana Gabaldon
I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.
~ Alan Tudyk
I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.
~ Margaret Trudeau
The first time I went to the Emmys was amazing. I had someone make me a dress - like, made for me.
~ Retta
one to know. I have spilt some ink on my dress and I am concealing it with paint.' Charlotte pointed at the blemish with her finger. 'There! Good as new.' 'But what on earth were you doing messing about with ink in a white ball gown? I thought girls had better things to do before a ball, like getting their hair arranged
~ Daisy Goodwin
Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.
~ Charlotte Riley
Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress,
~ Lorraine Heath
And what costume shall the poor girl wearTo all tomorrow's partiesA hand-me-down dress from who knows whereTo all tomorrow's parties
~ Lou Reed
Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. This is so unreal. I feel like a princess. She couldn't have given me a better opening for the conversation I've been hoping to have. Funny, I say. I was thinking the same thing. Delilah frowns. You feel like a princess too?
~ Jodi Picoult
The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom
~ Johann Gottfried Herder