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Quotes About Shoes

I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)
~ Marian Keyes
Magic was all fun and games until you had the H-bomb of spell materials on the bottom of your shoes.
~ Marisha Pessl
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
~ Anthony Burgess
If a man have not acquired the habit of reading till he be old, he shall sooner in his old age learn to make shoes than learn the adequate use of a book.
~ Anthony Trollope
at the back of her mind the thoroughly female conviction that the best way to soothe a troubled mind is to put on comfortable shoes.
~ Shirley Jackson
Aprì la valigia sul letto altissimo e, sfilandosi le rigide scarpe da città con un senso di liberazione, cominciò a disfare i bagagli; nei recessi della sua mente c'era la convinzione profondamente femminile che il modo migliore per dar sollievo a una mente turbata è mettersi un paio di scarpe comode.
~ Shirley Jackson
What do you put into the shoes to make them squeak?" "Oh, squeaks?" said Karpe. "Sugar makes them squeak.
~ Sholem Aleichem
A man's shoes said something about his character. Jennifer looked for jurors who wore comfortable shoes, because they were inclined to be easy-going.
~ Sidney Sheldon
I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put the books in boxes. No one ever read them. anyway.)
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kind of clothes, but a fabulous pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when no-one else is at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird, but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I love?
~ Sophie Kinsella
What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kinds of clothes, but a good pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when Suze isn't at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird—but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I really love?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Oh, you too, Becky!" says Nadine insincerely, then she looks at my spiky boots. "Don't those kill your feet? I can't do heels. I don't do rock music and I don't do heels over two inches. End of." She gives Craig a satisfied look and he gazes at her admiringly
~ Sophie Kinsella
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
~ George Eliot
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.
~ George Eliot
Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
~ Ellen Raskin
Discounters gave the common man and woman the opportunity to eschew the cobbler and the darning needle, to break in a brand-new pair of shoes or socks when their toes poked through the old ones. Discounters made ordinary folks feel rich by putting a wide selection of goods within easy reach of all but the most meager budgets. Someone had to pay, of course, but that someone need not be the customer.
~ Ellen Ruppel Shell
Now, among the petty miseries of human life the one for which the worthy priest felt the deepest aversion was the sudden sprinkling of his shoes, adorned with silver buckles, and the wetting of their soles.
~ balzac honore de xvii
Hsiung took me to a storeroom opposite the library where dozens of used shirts and pants were stacked next to a pile of odd shoes. I grabbed one set of everything. It was, I reflected, the first time I had received anything from the Chinese government.
~ Bao Ruo-Wang
Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.
~ Barbara Bretton
Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
~ Rick Pitino
I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.
~ Stacy London
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.
~ Christian Louboutin
Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.
~ Christian Louboutin