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Quotes About Suit

hung her slim brown Fendi messenger bag on the shoulder of her designer suit
~ Janet Evanovich
I think it's completely unnecessary why people want to know why I dress in a suit at a press conference if I'm at a fight. They should ask questions about my fight, not my suit.
~ Rory MacDonald
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
~ J. G. Ballard
Comfort has always been my biggest emphasis. So, while I do stay updated with trends, I won't wear something I know will not suit me.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family of communists? Well, I put on a suit and tie and became a capitalist... There was nothing I could do to upset my family more than that.
~ Bill Browder
I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.
~ Pablo Neruda
Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
~ William Gaddis
A policewoman, State, in a white paper hazmat suit, half unzipped, was standing in the middle of Porter, eating a pulled-pork sandwich. Flynne liked her haircut. Wondered if Tommy did. Then she wondered where you got a pulled-pork sandwich, this time of night.
~ William Gibson
and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very thought was quite absurd . . .
~ China Mieville
A thorough inspection of the birthday suit revealed a number of holes.
~ Les Coleman
Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit.
~ Leslie Charteris
Privately Kate thought that for a guy in a banana-yellow suit he was turning out to be a pretty sharp operator.
~ Lev Grossman
It's one thing to be a comic book fan, but when you have to create a character and put him in a suit and keep the story grounded in reality, the challenge sometimes is making sure he actually uses his powers.
~ Salim Akil
Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.
~ Ozwald Boateng
The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.
~ Frederick Lenz
She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
~ Lord Byron
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
~ Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
It's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.
~ John Varvatos
I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as Mon in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.
~ David Foster Wallace
I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.
~ Christopher Walken