trousers quotes

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
  Habeas Corpus.

She is trying to wear the trousers of Winston Churchill.

- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
  Of Margaret Thatcher. Speech.

I grow old†I grow old† I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

En skulde aldrig ha'sine bedste buxer pafi  , nafi   r en er ude og strider for frihed og sandhed. You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.

- HenrikJohan Ibsen
  En folkefiende (An Enemy of  the People), act 5.

They have asked me for my trousers, and I have given them; for my coat, and I have given that also; now they want my life, and that I cannot give.

- Paulus Kruger
  Speech in the Raad,7 Sep, at the beginning of the second Boer War,1899^1902.

We declare: the genius of our days to be: trousers, jackets, shoes, tramways, buses, aeroplanes, railways, magnificent shipswhat an enchantmentwhat a great epoch unrivalled in world history. 490

- Mikhail Larionov
  'Rayonnist Manifesto', quoted in C Gray  The Russian Experiment in  Art (revised edn1986).

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains fromshowing unlesshehastoand keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
c.1770  Aphorisms, Notebook B (translated by R  J Hollingdale, 1990).

Why haven't Igot a real'home'a real lifewhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlI'm a woman. I want things†all this love and joy that fights for outletand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.

-Beauchamp
  Letter to  John Middleton Murry, 23 Mar.

I'll be irreproachably tender; not a man, buta cloud in trousers!

-Vladimir Mayakovsky
  'The Cloud in Trousers' (translated by Samuel Charteris).

PoetryontheairsoundsliketheMusesinstripedtrousers.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'Poetry and the Microphone'.

The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split secondcomics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,Coke bottlesall the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.

- Andy Warhol
Quoted in AndyWarhol and Pat Hackett POPism:TheWarhol'60s (1980).