Top 58 Quotes About Corsets
#1. I can't breathe. I'm joing the Rational Dress Society the very moment we are back in London,and I fully intend to leave their pamphlets under Mother's pillow and tucked into her corsets.
Alyxandra Harvey
#2. I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!
Clemence Poesy
#3. I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.
Katee Sackhoff
#4. You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#5. Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.
Harper Lee
#6. Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
Allen Ginsberg
#7. Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
Gail Carriger
#8. I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
Helena Bonham Carter
#9. You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
L'Wren Scott
#10. I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#11. Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
Karl Kraus
#12. An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
Samuel Beckett
#13. Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.
Alyxandra Harvey
#14. I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#15. I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
Dinah Sheridan
#16. Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!
Jean Paul Gaultier
#17. When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
James Laver
#18. The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.
Aleksandra Mir
#19. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.
Laura Moriarty
#20. In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Frances O'Connor
#21. Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780s was probably punishable by stoning or corsets.
James Goss
#22. Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
Helena Bonham Carter
#23. While the traditional image of knights in armour is accurate and widely accepted, the equally representative image of knights wearing corsets and suspender belts is perhaps less well known.
Ian Mortimer
#25. You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair ... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
Ann Wilson
#27. I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.
Phyllis Diller
#28. Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
Rudyard Kipling
#29. The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
Lily James
#31. Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.
Robin Tunney
#32. Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Joyce Grenfell
#33. I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
Vanessa Paradis
#34. The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#35. I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
Noel Clarke
#36. On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
Helena Bonham Carter
#37. I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#38. I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
Isadora Duncan
#39. I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.
Vera Wang
#40. If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.
Keira Knightley
#41. Why can't we accept the human form as it is? screams no one. I don't know why, but we never have. That's why people wore corsets and neck stretchers and powdered wigs.
Tina Fey
#42. I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.
Kate Beckinsale
#43. The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
Dinah Sheridan
#44. I'm taller than most actresses, so most corsets tend to be too short in the body.
Michelle Dockery
#45. Corsets were a challenge in 'Belle;' fake nails tripped me up in 'Blackbird.' Guess I'm not a mani type of girl!
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#46. If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.
Clare Balding
#47. With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
Lily James
#48. My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets ... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.
Ariana Grande
#49. When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
Mireille Enos
#50. If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
Lara Stone
#51. She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
Jeannette Walls
#52. Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
Kate O'Mara
#53. How it irks me to have to take her hand, allow her to pull my dress over my head, undo my corsets and strip them off my, and have her see my blue veined swollen flesh and the hairy triangle that still proclaims with lunatic insistence a non-existent womanhood.
Margaret Laurence
#54. With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.
Cecilia Grant
#55. I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
Brenda Blethyn
#56. The early settlers amazed her
they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.
Jennifer Vanderbes
#57. Pretty words," Brooke said, dropping her arms so they laid limply at her sides. "But even the prettiest song can lose its intended meaning if it is repeated constantly.
Heather C. Myers
#58. Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
Mary Jo Putney
