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Quotes About Dress

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Inward holiness will produce outward holiness, but the outward appearance of holiness is worthless without inward holiness. For example, a modest spirit will produce modest dress, but modest dress is of little value if it conceals a lustful heart.
~ David K. Bernard
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
~ Sinclair Lewis
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.
~ Totie Fields
I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
I wake up the next morning and dress in all black, secret spy style. My mother eyes me and asks if I'm depressed, and I say, "No, I'm just cool.
~ Jami Attenberg
There wasn't any place on my body I could hide a gun not with that sleazy dress I had to wear. And that shoe had a spike on it. What the hell else is it good for?'' '' Jesus, Redding.'' Harrison laughed. ''Haven't you seen a movie, a magazine ad… another woman in public? Stilettos are common among people with oestrogen.'' ''Which explains why you know what they are, and I don't. Why don't you play the girl on the next mission? You're obviously better suited
~ Jana Deleon
It wasn't long ago that I left the CIA and DC, moved to Sinful, adopted a cat, quit my job, acquired a boyfriend, and for Christ's sake, I just wore a sequined dress and a tiara on a parade float. If there is any more change in my life, I might spontaneously combust.
~ Jana Deleon
and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress. 'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.
~ Edith Wharton
Chrissie tried all the chairs, the armchairs, the high chairs, the spindle-back chairs, "Is that apple wood, is that tulip wood, is that rosewood, Pascal?" People pitying her with her limp, in a yellow summery dress with a wide green sash as if she was entering a dance competition. Remarking on the holly to be so rich with berries, she said a good crop of berries always meant an addition to the family
~ Edna O'Brien
Anne came downstairs wearing a white cotton dress almost indistinguishable from the white cotton nightgown she had taken off.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it
~ Albert Einstein
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?
~ Alexander Pope
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
~ Alexander Pope
Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for all I'm worth. Forget staying in with a good book. This Cinderella is going to the ball.
~ Alexandra Potter
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
~ John Berger
I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.
~ Jerry Mathers
I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.
~ Ariel Pink
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
~ Ginger Rogers
I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.
~ Bella Thorne