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Quotes About Skirts

I like to wear skirts long or short.
~ Saskia de Brauw
My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.
~ Ariana Grande
I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the shirtdresses. And I always love to see girls in jackets and trousers.
~ Thom Browne
My favourite colour is red, but I also like jewel tones and monochrome, while my preferred shapes include A-line skirts and skinny trousers.
~ Tamzin Merchant
I've watched almost six shows at the LIFW, and I loved Ranna Gill for her flowing white skirts with silver coins, Manish Arora's hot pink drain pipe trousers and Rohit Bal's superb finish.
~ Rhea Pillai
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
~ Katharine Hepburn
Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?
~ Christine de Pizan
Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
~ Victor Hugo
And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
because you can't encourage independence of spirit and expect a child to remain hanging on to your skirts.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
~ Reem Acra
The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.
~ Dave Portnoy
Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache. (Letter to Sir Walter Scott, 25 July 1802)
~ James Hogg
So suppose Azalea finds the sugar teeth after all," said Bramble, taking Azalea by the shoulders and spinning her. Azalea rolled her eyes but obliged, and let her feet turn beneath her. A lsight push, and Azalea spun to Delphinium. "She breaks them," said Delphinium, catching Azalea and pushing her to Hollyhock in a spin, a ball with skirts. "Snap!" said Hollyhock. Azalea flinched. Hollyhock fumbled to spin her to Bramble again. "And in a burst of fireworks, he emerges from the passage! Burst!
~ Heather Dixon
Jeeves, whatever his moral defects, would never go about in skirts calling me Bertie.
~ p g wodehouse
opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn.
~ Holly Black
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don't have to doom you to a life of long pants.
~ Denise Austin
between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word.
~ David Sedaris
Grandfather's skirts would flap in the wind along the churchyard path and I would hang on.
~ Unknown
Wearing pantsuits and respectably hemmed skirts of every imaginable pastel, she had verified, cross-checked, and researched her way into mediocrity
~ Unknown
Hild was recognized: a tall maid with fathomless eyes, a very big knife and the pig's blood still on her skirts.
~ Nicola Griffith