Quotes About Trousers
If one could not remember somebody's trousers, then jeans were the safe default. Indeed, "defaults" was a good name for jeans. I put on my defaults. It sounded quite right.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
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Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.
~ Jason Statham
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was tucked into his dark blue trousers. He was small for his age, a lean and supple youth. Wind and sun had weathered the boy's face. The warm color of his skin, his white teeth and dark eyes, the dark trousers merging into the darkness of the corridor behind him: it was all a chance composition of perfect light and shadow.
~ Robin Hobb
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Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the knee of his trousers. This indicated healthy renal functioning.
~ Louis de Bernieres
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Isern squelched up the bank with Rikke's dripping trousers. 'Clean as new snow! Your only stench now shall be of youth and disappointment.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink. Now get your trousers off." She barked out that savage laugh of hers. "Words many a man has longed to hear me say.
~ Joe Abercrombie
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In contrast, a number of innovations can plausibly be attributed to the Little Ice Age: glass windowpanes, storm doors, skis, ice skates, sunglasses (first used for preventing snow blindness), distilled liquor, trousers, knitted clothing, buttons, and chimneys.
~ Rodney Stark
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It might now be the occasion to remember that for the Romans, a barbarian was someone who wore trousers, had a beard and ate butter.)
~ John Lanchester
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A timely rescue, gentlemen. Now find me a pair of trousers, and we'll see if we can manage a timelier one.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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The moment is stillness, utter and heartless, and that stillness continus when I step into the water again and wade back to shore, sodden trouser cuffs, clinging to my ankles.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We stopped for the driver, Sergei, to take a bathroom break in the woods. He had taken a dislike to me. 'What would you have done', he asked, 'if it were minus thirty, which it might well have been, and you were wearing those light trousers?' I said that the fabric was high-tech and I had worn the trousers in the Arctic, and showed him my merino leggings underneath, and two pairs of thermal socks. at this news he changed tack. 'Far too much for this mild weather'.
~ Sara Wheeler
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Now, Watson, said he. Have you any change in your pocket? Yes. Any silver? A good deal. How many half-crowns? I have five. Ah, too few! Too few! How very unfortunate, Watson! However, such as they are you can put them in your watchpocket. And all the rest of your money in your left trouser pocket. Thank you. It will balance you so much better like that.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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adventurous as a pair of elasticated beige trousers
~ Sophie Kinsella
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Or Nick Park," I say craftily. "You know? The Wallace and Gromit man?" "Ah!" says Tarkie, perking up. "The Wrong Trousers. Now, that was a jolly good film.
~ Sophie Kinsella
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Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.
~ Stephen Fry
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American soldiers wore khaki uniforms during World War II. Men's khaki trousers became fashionable after the war, as homecoming GI's decided to continue wearing the soft, comfortable pants in their civilian capacities.
~ Roger Stone
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In the late 80s though, during the new Glam Rock, leather trousers came back with a vengeance. In a way they replaced Spandex, which had slipped slowly out of fashion due to bands like Saxon never being out of the stuff. These new leather trousers began to develop accessories such as tassels, sequins, and laces up the sides. This all looked quite nice for a while, but in the end they were just another easy target for Kurt Cobain and his subversive cardigans.
~ Seb Hunter
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On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
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And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
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Some birds hop, bouncing along like little pocketless kangaroos, and a crow walks along with coins singing in her trousers.
~ Sharon Olds
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Navy personnel began clamoring for it. To the embarrassment of many, the current Navy working uniform is a blue camouflage print. Unsure whether perhaps I was missing the point, I asked a Navy commander about the rationale. He looked down at his trousers and sighed. "That's so no one can see you if you fall overboard." No
~ Mary Roach
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I have a great longing for trousers, and if I ask you in time maybe you can put in a little sequence with the trousers? Maybe her dressed as soldier, going to Napoleon's tent at night or something. I'm sorry not to contribute anything more but it is merely to remind you about the trousers. Trousers - girls in trousers. Pressed trousers. Girls. Trousers, trousers.
~ Barry Paris
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Never trust a man in red trousers
~ Mika
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