Dress Quotes

#1. You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Julie Harris

#2. I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Hugh Jackman

#3. It's beautiful," I whispered. "Green as grass." I remembered grass. It could get as green as that dress.

Susie Finkbeiner

#4. The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

George Gershwin

#5. The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

Christina Hendricks

#6. That would be like finding out Mr. Rogers was a serial killer that liked to dress up in clown outfits before he offed his victims. Or that Captain Kangaroo was a Brony.

Mark Tufo

#7. It (her wedding dress) was the kind of dress that both Scarlett O'Hara and Princess Diana would have deemed 'over the top'.

Jenny Lawson

#8. I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

Rachel Weisz

#9. Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of passion, always the same forms and the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.

Danielle Steel

#11. That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Gianni Versace

#12. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

Nick Laird

#13. I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

Arnold Palmer

#14. Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin
or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

Sophie Kinsella

#16. The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Quentin Crisp

#17. with how little he was satisfied, such as lodging, bed, dress, food, servants;

Marcus Aurelius

#18. When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

Letitia Baldrige

#19. Like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.

Leah Wilson

#20. Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.

Patrick Alexander

#21. If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

Khloe Kardashian

#22. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Tama J. Kieves

#23. Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

Paloma Picasso

#24. I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Alice Temperley

#25. [Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup ... I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

Julie Bowen

#26. I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy. If you tell me to do a guest list, I cry. I hate it.

Chrissy Teigen

#27. I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.

Marie Osmond

#28. A holiday in a new dress-can earth offer anything more enchanting?

O. Henry

#29. We have better things to do. We realize life is not just a dress rehearsal and if you realize it, you don't need a bumper sticker to remind you.

Aimee Bender

#30. Besides," Gwen added, fluffing the dress folds, "this thing took forever, so you're wearing it."
"Wait you made this?" Isobel asked, distracted.
"Altered it," she admitted. She shrugged. "Half off at the Nearly New Shop. By the way, you owe me twenty-five dollars.

Kelly Creagh

#31. The girl in the knee-length white dress wasn't just waving at me and holding a cardboard sign with my name in Sharpied

Ruby Glass

#32. The Night is young & full of rest I can't describe the way she's dress'd She'll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

Jim Morrison

#33. Isabel is a very talented photographer," she says. "Indeed, I am! I like to take photographs of babies nestling in oversized teacups." I spear a pea with my fork and hold it up. "Or sometimes I dress them in little green pea costumes and arrange them as if they're peering out of gigantic pods.

Lauren Fox

#34. I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

Victoria Beckham

#35. A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

George Catlin

#36. It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Camille Paglia

#37. I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

Louise Nurding

#38. Because I want her.
Now.
Here.
Everywhere.
I want nothing between us.
I want her clothes off and the lights on and I want to study her. I want to unzip her out of this dress and take my time with every inch of her.

Tahereh Mafi

#39. Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Constance Markievicz

#40. In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.

Euzhan Palcy

#41. I think to be a true style icon, you just have to dress yourself. There are so many actresses floating around who have people picking out their outfits for them; that's hard for me to wrap my head around or celebrate.

Chloe Sevigny

#42. The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

Ellen Terry

#43. I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

Jennifer Lopez

#44. "Do you often wear this dress?"
He pointed to the black satin dress with the two yellow swallows.
"I found it here when I rented the room. It must have belonged to the previous lodger."
"Or perhaps to you, in an earlier life."

Patrick Modiano

#45. The way we dress
affects the way we
think.
the way we
feel.
the way we
act.
& the way others
react
to us.

Judith Rasband

#46. I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I look like the other dudes. Style played a part in it. You're not really going to dress in a suit in a tie.

Michael Pena

#47. My mother's dress bears the stains of her life:
blueberries, blood, bleach,
and breast milk;
She cradles in her arms a lifetime
of love and sorrow;
Its brilliance nearly blinds me.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#48. If you find yourself in the middle of a storm, dress yourself with courage, and look forward to the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#49. Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned.

Jim Butcher

#50. Ms. It sounds like a sick bumblebee, it sounds frigid. I mean, who the hell would ever want to stick his hand up the dress of somebody who goes around calling herself something like Ms.? It's all so stupid.

Patti Smith

#51. I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

Jenna Fischer

#52. Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no factor - age, dress, or color - distinguishes a man who will harm a woman from one who will not.

Marilyn French

#53. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am.
I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed.
Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

Alan Moore

#54. But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down.

Robert Penn Warren

#55. If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

Vin Diesel

#56. Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

Eloisa James

#57. Just look at my sweater, you disgusting monster."
"Only the most flamboyant offal would be seen in a miscarriage like that. You must have some shame or at least some taste in dress.

John Kennedy Toole

#58. As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days.

Sania Mirza

#59. When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

Jerry Hall

#60. She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.

Kathryn Stockett

#61. It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

Elvis Costello

#62. No, Kara was the one with the Dungeons and Dragons mini dress.

Penny Reid

#63. She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.

Leo Tolstoy

#64. Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.

Matt Forbeck

#65. Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

T.E.D. Klein

#66. Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'!

Robert Pattinson

#67. You mean he's not afraid of me because I'm a woman? He ought to see Tomb Raider sometime. For all he knows, I could have a nuclear bomb under my dress and a hand grenade in each cup of my bra. I call it antifeminist!

Kerstin Gier

#68. Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.

Murray Rothbard

#69. I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

Donatella Versace

#70. Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Marc Jacobs

#71. Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Rob Lowe

#72. You can dress attractively without being immodest. Within the Lord's guidelines, there is room for you to be lively, vibrant, and beautiful both in your dress and in your actions.

Thomas S. Monson

#73. {My mom] long ago advised me, when I was feeling blue or self-doubting about men, that the best thing to do was go out and buy a red lipstick or a red dress. 'It will be your red badge of courage,' she said.

Maureen Dowd

#74. A very bouncy Kyle woke Livia at some ridiculous o'clock on Friday morning.
"Wakey-wakey, you sloppy, old whore. It's time to do you up. You're going out tonight, so you don't get to dress in nursing home casual." Kyle ripped off Livia's covers.

Debra Anastasia

#75. Bless her heart, she must've been drinking when she bought that dress. He

Nora Roberts

#76. Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Sinclair Lewis

#77. What's poetry? I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Lauren Oliver

#78. It's not stupid to want to put on a pretty dress and feel beautiful for a night.

Stephanie Perkins

#79. Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'

Casey Wilson

#80. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Beyonce Knowles

#81. With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

Brad Goreski

#82. Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

#83. This girl - this thin, cold child in a hand-me-down cardigan and faded dress - hated me, not for anything I was or had done, but because I existed, in her world, and she didn't want me there.

John Burnside

#84. I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.

Celine Dion

#85. I don't think anyone should get married just to please their parents and get to wear a nice dress, Ruby.'

'Well, that's why most people I know get married!'

'Well, maybe that's why one in three marriages end in divorce!

Helen Chandler

#86. Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.

Shahla Khan

#87. So long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#88. We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

S.I. Hayakawa

#89. I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

Vidya Balan

#90. I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

Cindy Sherman

#91. Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Fletcher Knebel

#92. First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

Sonia Rykiel

#93. Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

Lauren Conrad

#94. My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.

John Varvatos

#95. It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Karen Marie Moning

#96. I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.

Pat Robertson

#97. What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

Salma Hayek

#98. No, baby, I like the dress.
I was just going to like it much, much more in a pile on my bedroom floor.

A.L. Jackson

#99. I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#100. Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe.

Lauren Conrad