Quotes About A Well Dressed Woman

#1. If anyone saw Monique, a well-dressed woman of quality, dangling from the doorway, they apparently assumed everyone had difficulties in life and moved on.

Gail Carriger

#2. Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Laurie R. King

#3. A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

Louise Brooks

#4. A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Coco Chanel

#5. A woman on the verge of moral downfall ought to be well dressed. Claire's particular transgression was gartered to her thigh, a paper hidden by yards of silk. She walked through the empty alley, confident in one comforting truth: no one dared ask a lady what her skirts concealed...

Gina Conkle

#6. In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

Madeleine Stowe

#7. woman behind the counter glided over. She looked early-to-mid thirties, casually dressed in well-worn jeans and a tight fitting top, and easy on the eyes. She gave me a warm smile. "Finding everything alright?" "I think

Doug Keeler

#8. Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.

Imogen Edwards-Jones

#9. There's in my mind a ...
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind.

Denise Levertov

#10. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Oscar De La Renta

#11. Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. This afternoon it rains as never before; and I
don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be?
It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.

Cesar Vallejo

#13. I held myself still, hardly daring to breathe. What was happening to me? Now that I was dressed as a woman, was I beginning to feel like one too? Perhaps I'd acted the part of a man for so long that I'd forgotten what it was like to even be a woman.

Jody Hedlund

#14. My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a man, who was this great sword fighter, and the captain fell in love with her.

Maria Bello

#15. They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Marya Mannes

#17. Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

Florynce Kennedy

#18. I happened to think of something. I knowed mighty well that a drownded man don't float on his back, but on his face. So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes. So

Mark Twain

#19. As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.

Max Frisch

#20. If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Manolo Blahnik

#21. Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. When you undress a woman you enter her subconscious kingdom, her scents, her secrets and her fantasy.

Chloe Thurlow

#22. A man goes to a fancy dress party dressed only in his Y-fronts. A woman comes up to him and says "What are you supposed to be?" The man says "A premature ejaculation." "What?" says the woman. The man explains "I've just come in my pants."

Tommy Cooper

#23. If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

George Eliot

#24. I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

Joan Collins

#25. She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.

Dorothy Dunnett

#26. This past Halloween girls across the country dressed up as Ronda Rousey. That's because she's an amazing, beautiful, and powerful woman.

Ronda Rousey

#27. She is the best-dressed woman in the county, and the best looking," said Mrs. Bates, "and that's all there is to her.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#28. Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

Oscar De La Renta

#29. I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.

Amy Winehouse

#30. Footnote: In 1998, a woman in Saline, Michigan received a patent for a Decorative Penile Wrap ... The patent included three pages of drawings, including a penis wearing a ghost outfit, another in the robes of the Grim Reaper, and one dressed up to look like a snowman.

Mary Roach

#31. By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.

James M. Cain

#32. Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Sonia Rykiel

#33. The image of a well-dressed older woman making on a goopish spoonful of artificial boon spooge was running across the lobes of his brain like a stuttering nightmare.

Christopher Moore

#34. A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have

Coco Chanel

#35. It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

Dai Sijie

#36. Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.

D.H. Lawrence

#37. Could you please put this
could you all put these
could you get dressed, please?"
The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires."
"The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?

Kelley Armstrong

#38. My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

Natalie Dormer

#39. Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

Robin Williams

#40. Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#41. Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.

C.W. Gortner

#42. If you came here dressed like this in order not to let me notice how lovely you are," he said, "you miscalculated. You're lovely. I wish I could tell you what a relief it is to see a face that's intelligent though a woman's. But you don't want to hear it. That's not what you came here for.

Ayn Rand

#43. If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress, and if she's impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.

Coco Chanel

#44. When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Alexander McQueen

#45. I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Coco Chanel

#46. Jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in

Eileen Wilks

#47. When a flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know, like NOW if you'd like to become a substitute princess, do you:
a) run
b) faint
c) say yes!

Lindsey Leavitt

#48. The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

Edwin Hardy Amies

#49. Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

Angela Carter

#50. Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

Kenneth Cole

#51. all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A

Ernest Cline

#52. Some men got excited by white lace and a translucent negligee. My love muffin got excited by a woman dressed to murder. There was probably something deeply twisted about that. Lucky for me, negligees were never my thing.

Ilona Andrews

#53. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.

Bob Dylan

#54. I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

John B. Keane

#55. Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. Beautiful storms dressed in women's clothing.

Jenim Dibie

#57. The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we've dressed so many different women at awards.

Francisco Costa

#58. She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead

Henry James

#59. When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize ... She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

Sarah Addison Allen

#60. Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

Erma Bombeck

#61. I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.

Andrea Riseborough

#62. Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other.

Victor Hugo

#63. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

Deborah Tannen

#64. I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops ... I don't find that sexy.

Angelina Jolie

#65. And there's a woman dressed in white, who's nice to hear, and soft to touch, and she whispers, 'Colette, I love you very much' I have a place where no one is ost, and where no one cries, because crying is not aloud, on my Castle In the Clouds

Victor Hugo

#66. A woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

Virginia Graham

#67. A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Elizabeth George

#68. I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.

Sebastian Faulks

#69. A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

Bill Blass