Dresses Quotes
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations
on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to
dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
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More Dresses Quotes
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
wallace stevens— Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms, "Adagia" (1957).
Whenever Auntie moves around, Her dresses make a curious sound; They trail behind her up the floor, And trundle after through the door.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1885 A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.15,'Auntie's Skirts'.
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
coco chanel— Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
coco chanel— As quoted in Chanel : A Woman of Her Own (1991) by Axel Madsen, p. 124
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messesThat now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.
eddie mair— In: Headlines at bbc.co.uk, 22 September 2006
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
lin yutang— In Vogue, as quoted by The Reader's digest, Vol. 30-31 (1937), p. 69
All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.
czesław miłosz— "On Angels"
Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
john milton— Line 85. (L'Allegro (1631))
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), line 446.
Well, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.
Bruce Wayne— Batman Begins (2005), Christian Bale
Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
john milton— John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
The carpenter dresses his plank the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Part XV, Stanza 77.
My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.
audrey hepburn
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out of jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
Diane von Furstenberg
dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in, dresses in which to do nothing at all; dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall; All of them different in color and shape. Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape, Brocade and broadcloth, and other material, Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.
william allen butler— William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear (1857).
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist I don't think she'd be missedI'm sure she'd not be missed!
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert— 1885 Ko-Ko's song, The Mikado, act1.
Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose… …Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part… …perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts… …the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events… …Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.
Edward Hopper— a letter to his mother, 11 May, 1907; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 2
I was amazed how people would wear T-shirts at the windy corner of Portage and Main where the wind comes whistling off the plains. Seeing people wear T-shirts made me feel like a big pansy, I was in a big parka, and you'd see girls in little dresses going down the street. I couldn't understand it.
— Craig Ferguson from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson commenting on his time spent in Winnipeg in 2004 filming the movie Niagara Motel., Winnipeg Sun, April 2, 2006. Hart Berger reporting.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light .
— William Collins, in Diane Boller, Don Selby, Chryss Yost Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, Sourcebooks, Inc., 1 December 2003, p.199
