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Quotes About Trousers

The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
~ Anton du Beke
My dick lay limply inside my trousers, like a little lunch packed by Mother.
~ Wallace Shawn
Henry, in coat and tie, waded out to where Francis stood, his trousers rolled to the knee, and old-fashioned banker in a surrealist painting.
~ Donna Tartt
Ah," said Arthur, "er …" He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman's husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again.
~ Douglas Adams
I always like to have a few wardrobe options to try to see what I feel best in on the day and so preparation is key - it could be trousers, a dress, or I do love a skirt and top, so I have to be prepared.
~ Emma Willis
burning house; watched for the dark trousers and blue
~ Randy Wayne White
All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.
~ Bella Heathcote
tall, lank, awkward; dressed in a loose, ill-fitting black frock coat, with black trousers, ill-fitting and somewhat baggy at the knees.
~ David Herbert Donald
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I rolled my eyes. "You have all the subtlety of a melodrama heroine," I informed him. "And the endurance of a particularly tiny sea slug. Where is your spirit, sir? Where is your grit?" "In my other trousers," he said, his jaws clenched.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I'm not giving away sartorial secrets but the trousers I wear cost 19 quid.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
~ Mika
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
~ Vince Cable
Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.
~ Roald Dahl
Animal lover, reluctant princess, and lover of trousers. When in residence, she'd be more comfortable wearing something like this!
~ Jen Calonita
The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trousers.
~ Eoin Colfer
Yankee Doodle went to town, He wore his striped trousies, He swore he couldn't see the town, There were so many houses.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.
~ Laurie R. King
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
~ Alan Bennett
so he sat smoking on the sofa with the lower trouser leg hanging empty towards the floor, lost in thought.
~ Robert Galbraith
my stomach aches a new. blasted inconvenience. What do young men have to mark their entry into adulthood? Trousers, that's what. Fine, new trousers. I despise absolutely everyone just now.
~ Libba Bray
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Tofu wore special flame-proof pants – that was well known. "They call them fibbers' trousers," she said knowledgeably. "They're more expensive, but they stop your pants going on fire when you lie.
~ Alexander McCall Smith