Dress Quotes

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain

Soul, Keep, Careless

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin

Others, Eat, Please

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.
Marilyn Monroe

Spring, Autumn, Warm

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn Monroe

School, Remember, Friends

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Body, Blue

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
Lil Wayne

Best, Else, Act

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel

Elegance, Consist, Putting

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren

Husband, Wife, Together

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Mike Tyson

Old, Put, Sometimes

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin

Thought, Small, Big

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton

Life, Boring, Short

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

Men, Fashion, Public

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

Women, Live, Beat

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.
Hillary Clinton

Down, Eyes, Touch

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Age, Evening, Away

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren

Woman, Purpose, View

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson

Thought, Language

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

True, End, Give

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats

Soul, Hands, Unless

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron

Poetry, Two, Three

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
Bette Midler

Night, Married, German

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor, Good, Best

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.
Portia de Rossi

Yourself, Lesbian, Everyone

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Francoise Sagan

Men, Sense, Off

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa

Change, Rock, Style

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
Roberto Cavalli

Women, Sexy, Real

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf

War, Between, Far

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Often, Times, Aim

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