Dress Quotes

Language is the dress of thought. (Samuel Johnson)
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. View quote
Sophia Loren
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. View quote
Christian Dior
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Life is not a dress rehearsal. View quote
Rose Tremain
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. View quote
William Hazlitt
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. View quote
George Eliot
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. View quote
Edmund Burke
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
We dont bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we dont dress well and weve got no manners. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? View quote
Douglas Coupland
Style is the dress of thoughts. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. View quote
Paris Hilton
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. View quote
Marie Curie
Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing. View quote
Eloisa James
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. View quote
Loretta Young
You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. (Edith Head)
The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up. View quote
George Gershwin
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. View quote
Tina Fey
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. View quote
Wallace Stevens
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! View quote
Amy Lee