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  • Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.

    - Lilly Dache 
      'Lilly Dache ' s Secrets of Lifelong Glamour Book', in Woman's Home Companion, vol.82,  Jul.

  • There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

    - (Hannibal) Hamlin Garland
      Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.

  •    Back in the early Sixties, when I first started out, insolvency spelt glamour.

    - (Robert) Ian Hamilton
      The Trouble  with Money and Other Essays.

  • The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      'Piano'.

  • Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d'e  tat by the second ranktroupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men.

    - SirTom originally Tom Straussler Stoppard
      The Real Inspector Hound.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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