Finery Quotes

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. View quote
Christiaan Huygens
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Pirates! No true honest seamen, these, with their strange contrast of finery and ruffianism. Tarry breeks and seamen's shirts, yet silken sashes lapped their waists; no stockings to their legs, yet many had on silver-buckled shoes and heavy gold rings to their fingers. Great gems dangled from many a heavy gold hoop serving as an ear ring. Not an honest sailorman's knife among them, but costly Spanish and Italian daggers. Their gauds, their ferocious faces, their wild and blasphemous bearing stamped them with the mark of their red trade. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Revolutionaries knew quite well that the autocratic Empire, with its hangmen, its pogroms, its finery, its famines, its Siberian jails and ancient iniquity, could never survive the war. View quote
Victor Serge
To the delight of millions of little children, the Santa in New York's great parade will be half of a same-sex couple. And guess who the other half will be? Me! Harvey Fierstein, nice Jewish boy from Bensonhurst, dressed in holiday finery portraying the one and only Mrs. Claus. View quote
Harvey Fierstein
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. View quote
Grant Morrison