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Quotes about Dress


Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

William Shakespeare

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

William Shakespeare

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Zac Posen

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

James H. Boren

For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing, Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

John Milton

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.

James Thomson (1)

Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.

Linda Bowles

I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark.

Jilly Cooper

Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.

William Shakespeare

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.

C. David Heymann

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

Paul Newman

Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Ronald Blythe

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.

O. Henry (pseudonym of William Sydney Porter)

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Abraham Cowley

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.

Thomas Edison

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Charles Kingsley

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Robert Burton

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

William Blake

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. - Inaugural Address.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

Phineas Fletcher

Would I describe a preacher, . . . . I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

William Cowper

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.

Lucille S. Harper

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