Dress'd Quotes

#1. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

Alexander Pope

#2. True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Alexander Pope

#3. 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

#4. I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.

Emma Roberts

#5. The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#6. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.

J.D. Jordan

#7. Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.

Erma Bombeck

#8. You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

Dick York

#9. What's your story, dress?" Charlotte whispered. "Where'd you come from and why'd you come looking for me? One orphaned girl seeking another?

Rachel Hauck

#10. I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.

Genelia D'Souza

#11. Before I got Madeline, I used to see dog people who were so obsessed, and I'd think, Oh, that's so sad. But now, here I am, talking about her all the time. I even dress her up in little outfits; I'm madly in love with her.

Kristin Chenoweth

#12. I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

Karen Gillan

#13. I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Imelda May

#14. If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.

Elizabeth Berg

#15. Dress for the story that you'd like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.

Rachel Roy

#16. I'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

Sandra Brown

#17. I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are
ah
slumming.

Harper Lee

#18. I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#19. Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!"
"So would I," said Gideon from across the room.

Cassandra Clare

#20. If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

Donatella Versace

#21. There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

Emilia Clarke

#22. When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

Lea Michele

#23. To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Jenna McCarthy

#25. Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

J.D. Salinger

#26. The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time; andif he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him.

Laurence Sterne

#27. I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

Elle Fanning

#28. I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

Illeana Douglas

#29. I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Mae West

#30. Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,
Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,
An Nature, in her cultivated trim
Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -
Can he want occupation who has these?

William Cowper

#31. It's not the dress you wear; it is your attitude that can express that you really care.

Debasish Mridha

#32. We have a society in which men sexualize women, period. If you don't want male attention, it makes total sense you'd do everything to your dress and physicality to not be sexualized. But I see that changing dramatically. Now, [younger lesbians] look more like Paris Hilton than Billie Jean King.

Jackie Warner

#33. I trained three or four days a week for two and a half months, before they'd even let me near the real dress. And I destroyed two practice dresses completely. They were just ripped to shreds. They looked like cats had gotten a hold of them.

Richard Madden

#34. She tugged on her sleeves again. He could tell the dress was bothering her something fierce. Well, he could understand that. He'd've been mighty uncomfortable in a dress himself, and she was probably no more used to a dress than he was.

Mary Connealy

#35. Safi was sick of dancing. Literally, she felt ill from all the spinning, and her breath - she'd not had a single moment to catch it since ... Merik. Prince Merik. The man who couldn't dress himself properly had turned out to be royalty.

Susan Dennard

#36. I'd decided that I was going to stop dressing like a princess and start dressing like a queen.

Kiera Cass

#37. And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#38. If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

Stephen Sondheim

#39. A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Laurence Sterne

#40. Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I'd run.

Cheshire Cat

#41. Oh, I'm sure you could come up with something, and even then, you'd dress it up in a way that would probably make me want it.

Ella Frank

#42. I wear a lot of black, and it's not because I'm depressed or anything. I like black jeans - they're pretty much the only colored jeans I wear. James Jeans have the most comfortable fabric. I'd say in general, I dress pretty comfortably.

Brittany Howard

#43. I must confess the language of symbols is to me
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch'd and piebald languages:
'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.

Sir Richard Phillips

#44. I watched women file in, hoping each new one in a smart dress suit was a fairy godmother carrying my new fate. I'd catch her glance as she passed, hoping she'd see the star pattern in my eyes. Oh, it's you. I found you. Does every child have this fantasy - or just the sad ones?

Sarah Hepola

#45. Kingslund's dress will be a matching one in silver. They will be absolutely exquisite. Jen would be exquisite. I'd probably look like a donkey at the races. With ribbons on it.

Mark Henwick

#46. I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

Tim Burton

#47. If I'd played Mammy, I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress. -Minny

Kathryn Stockett

#48. Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

K.d. Lang

#49. I'd forced myself to interact with so much pornography, I no longer regarded my wife in a sexual manner. Each time I tried, my mind filled with images of fetish porn. I could admire her dress, legs and hips, but the response was aesthetic and intellectual, as if studying art I couldn't afford.

Chris Offutt

#50. I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

Britt Ekland

#51. When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or fairy and go to corporate parties and entertain the children. I will never, ever do that again. The worst was the demanding children - I've never been so exhausted doing a job as that one.

Shelley Conn

#52. I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

Kirsten Dunst

#53. He wouldn't let his son have any name if he could take it from him," returned the old lady. "Look at the son's dress!" It certainly was plain - threadbare - almost shabby. "Yet the father must be garnished and tricked out," said the old lady, "because of his deportment. I'd deport him! Transport

Charles Dickens

#54. Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

J.D. Salinger

#55. I think it was Betsey Johnson that said women dress for other women. If we dressed for men, we'd all run around naked.

Jillian Dodd

#56. Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away;
Who would not scorn what housewife's cares produce,
Or who would learn one earthly thing of use?

Alexander Pope

#57. I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

Jacklyn Zeman

#58. And if I don't want you to? (Ravyn)
You know, you'd look really weird in a dress and high heels. (Susan)
What's that supposed to mean? (Ravyn)
It means you're not my mother. Now stop arguing and help me find my shoes. (Susan)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#59. Women dress for women, if we dressed for me, we'd all be running around naked.

Jillian Dodd

#60. I'll distract her ... Okay, lady. Say hello to my little friend." Lance began to laugh maniacally. "What'd you do?" Heinrich asked. "Had a rat crawl up her dress to bite her on the ass. Ha!

Larry Correia

#61. All night I'd wondered, if I blew hard enough, would the dress fly up in back?

Abbi Glines

#62. My new dress itched and I wished I'd taken the time to ask around the lab about these Spanx things I had on. From this first experience with them, I decided they were created by Satan, or a man who was too thin for skinny jeans.

Christina Lauren

#63. In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.

Russell Westbrook

#64. Conquers all! All you need is! Is a many-splendored thing! Surrender to! Like corn rammed down goose necks, this shit they'd swallowed since they were barely old enough to dress themselves in tulle.

Lauren Groff

#65. I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2. As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

Nicole Beharie

#66. I'd love to have a little Coco if I could have my way. I always dress up my dogs and they probably hate me for it, so it would be nice to dress up a human being.

Coco Austin

#67. My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!'

Agyness Deyn

#68. My butterfly dress was visible on the washroom floor, bent and shredded wings and all. Cheeks hot, I remember what he'd suggested before someone shot him.
His eyes found the dress too. I was teasing about that. Unless you were looking forward to it. Then I meant every word.

Jodi Meadows

#69. A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Dolly Parton

#70. My outfit was a black dress with a corset waist, off-the-shoulder sleeves, and a large ball gown skirt. It looked like something someone might've worn to a Gothic wedding. And then they'd been buried in it for a few months.

Amanda Hocking

#71. For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.

Cherie Priest

#72. I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

Emilie De Ravin

#73. In Britain we have a very powerful tabloid culture with celebrities on the front page crying with their make-up smeared and tears, and it's kind of what you'd expect from someone who likes to dress up that way.

Eddie Izzard

#74. I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

William Gibson

#75. For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

Agyness Deyn

#76. She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense.

Margaret Atwood

#77. When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I'd say I've definitely progressed since then in terms of style.

Sophie Turner

#78. I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

Marc Jacobs

#79. I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?"
"No, I usually do it myself.

J.D. Robb

#80. She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror.
Dance. Dress. Try a little tenderness.

Rainbow Rowell

#81. Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times.

Betsey Johnson

#82. When had I gotten so afraid of love and hope that I strangled it to death with my insecurity? Maybe it was easier to date an ugly man, one with obvious flaws, one who belched and couldn't dress, and wasn't so damn perfectly tempting. At least then I'd feel confident.

Alessandra Torre

#83. I toss the formal dress from 1905 onto the chair next to him. He glances up, removing the headphones.
"Did you decide to do a bit of shopping in London?"
I give him a wry smile. "Does this look like something I'd buy? Your great-grandfather picked it out.

Rysa Walker

#84. When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#85. You dress for the world, but under that, you dress for me. I own your softest places, and what touches them is mine.

C.D. Reiss

#86. I'd of told Scarlett to stick those green draperies up her white little pooper. Make her own damn man-catching dress.

Kathryn Stockett

#87. He didn't need to tell his uncle he'd sworn off clothing forever. There was no way it would be any less painful to dress than it had been to undress, and dressing meant eventually undressing anyway, so he was going to be a nudist for the rest of his life.

L.A. Witt

#88. She was wearing a bright purple dress that was so short, I thought it might have started its life as a shirt. She would've been pretty if her face hadn't looked like she'd just taken a big swig of sour milk.

Rachel Hawkins

#89. We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#90. She tugged at the little braids on each side of her head. Again, Jason thought how glad he was that she'd lost the Aphrodite blessing. With the makeup and the dress and the perfect hair, she'd looked about twenty-five, glamorous, and completely out of his league.

Rick Riordan

#91. If you're looking to make a little money on the side like I do, you might want to apply somewhere else. You'd have to wax your legs to make this dress work on you. - Abbey to Kip -

Shawn Keenan

#92. She'd never realized how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment.

Nalini Singh

#93. I'd like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay,
gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I'm usually wearing
my sister's prom dress kind of gay.

Gwen Hayes

#94. In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Ruzwana Bashir

#95. If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

Mickey Mantle

#96. I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.

Stephane Rolland

#97. I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.

Barbara Kingsolver

#98. You're no better. Playing dress-up like you know right from wrong. Who made you the fucking hero?

I did.

J.D. Cunegan

#99. I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Juliette Lewis

#100. I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

Mila Kunis