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Quotes About Well-dressed

Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
~ W. H. Davies
The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.
~ Agatha Christie
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
~ Raymond Chandler
had a habit of wearing a jacket and tie with a white shirt when he went into the field, because he felt that a well-dressed doctor would inspire confidence in the midst of the shit terror of a smallpox outbreak.
~ Richard Preston
elevator door opened and people poured out. Bustling, well dressed, Oriental.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed... But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I'm wearing their clothes.
~ Tom Odell
Dancing with Anthony was like dancing with a particularly well-dressed, well-mannered wolf: The experience was both dangerous and exhilarating.
~ Amanda Quick
God, I'm an idiot," I said, once we'd almost reached our destination. "That's never a term I'd use to describe you," he said promptly. "Articulate. Well dressed. Smart. Organized. Beautiful. I'd use those terms, but never 'idiot.
~ Richelle Mead
How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.
~ Angela Thirkell
Recently, (...) I saw a girl buying the Tribuna (...), obviously because of the fashion article. She wasn't especially well dressed, not *yet*.
~ Franz Kafka
A self-obsessed man is always well dressed and overcautious about own looks like all women.
~ Anuj Somany
A self-obsessed person feels depressed proportionately with not being praised by the people for her/his looks & as how s/he has well-dressed and is often the reason for the stressed life of others.
~ Anuj Somany
Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
~ Anne Rice
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The whole width of the kitchen separated the well-dressed from the ill-dressed and it was the well-dressed, weighed down by numbers, who felt themselves at a disadvantage. What makes one feel uncomfortable, they discovered suddenly, is not what one has got or has not got, but being different.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Today I'm well fed, well dressed, and well liked by the right people, and all it's cost me is what you'd expect: my self-respect and the approval of most of my friends.
~ George Alec Effinger
Dirt is a great respecter of persons; it lets you alone when you are well dressed, but as soon as your collar is gone it flies towards you from all directions.
~ George Orwell
One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.
~ Joseph Altuzarra
It is rather a mark of vanity not to dress well. The sloven thinks that nature has done enough for him.
~ bovee christian nestell v
What would be a bigger spectacle, a female with one shoe on or a well-dressed female with no shoes? This is New York so I said fuck it.
~ Sister Souljah
My sisters are the ones who are always well dressed. Mukti, especially, has a good taste in clothes.
~ Shakti Mohan
Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.
~ C.W. Gortner
You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest.
~ J.D. Robb
The image of a well-dressed older woman making on a goopish spoonful of artificial boon spooge was running across the lobes of his brain like a stuttering nightmare.
~ Christopher Moore