Top 100 Quotes About Dresses
#2. Before me no one would have dared dress in black
Coco Chanel
#3. In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
Dwight Yoakam
#4. Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.
Prabal Gurung
#5. The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
Jean Cocteau
#6. I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut
everything.
Karl Lagerfeld
#7. I want to dress like a child as much as possible.
Kanye West
#8. From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
Melissa George
#9. When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.
Tim Gunn
#10. There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
Coco Chanel
#11. If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.
Drake
#12. I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.
Rebecca Romijn
#13. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.
Charles Bukowski
#14. One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. I love running dresses! I need to make working out as enjoyable as possible, and a cute outfit is definitely part of that.
Lindy Booth
#16. Sweetly, albeit hoarsely and with a burr, the girl started singing something scarcely comprehensible, but, judging by the women's faces in the stalls, very seductive:
Guerlain, Chanel no 5, Mitsuko, Narcissus noir, evening dresses, cocktail dresses..
Mikhail Bulgakov
#17. The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
Simon Barnes
#18. It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
Serena Williams
#19. The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.
Stefan Zweig
#20. I love maxi dresses, I feel so great when I put on a maxi dress, big earrings and sandals.
Poppy Delevingne
#21. When I went to see Mrs. Clinton and we talk about the inaugural dress I ask her what would you like to achieve with this particular dress? And she said to me what I would like is - that when I walk into the room and people will look at me and say wow you look great.
Oscar De La Renta
#22. Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.
Robbie Williams
#23. I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.
Shingai Shoniwa
#24. Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
Azzedine Alaia
#25. Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence.
Santosh Kalwar
#26. Did you think of party dresses
and high school plays
or hallways full of lovers not yet met?
Rod McKuen
#27. Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.
Iman Abdulmajid
#28. I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#29. We try on different dresses, different selves, but our souls are always the same - ongoing, full of light.
Francesca Lia Block
#30. I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
Eddie Izzard
#31. Want a sugar cube? [ ... ] They're supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They've got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I ... well, if we see something sweet we better grab it quick. [ ... ] You're absolutely terrifying me in that get-up. What happened to the pretty little-girl dresses?
Suzanne Collins
#32. She's the Girl Who Dresses Too Hot For Work. Every rotation has one, probably every job.
Lisa Scottoline
#33. A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.
Susanna Kearsley
#34. Both are women dressed in tight dresses and high
Susan Ee
#35. You don't have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.
Seth Rogen
#36. Slim young women were swathed in chic black dresses, here to attend a ceremony in one of the hotel's many reception rooms. They wore small but expensive accessories, like vampire finches in search of blood, longing for a hint of light they could reflect.
Haruki Murakami
#37. I can go without make-up and go fishing with my dad; other times, I buy pink shoes and shop for dresses.
Jordan Pruitt
#38. In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Charles Lamb
#39. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel
#40. Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go?
Dana Gould
#41. [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.
Jackie Kennedy
#42. There's no sense drawing attention to yourself, Li." "Hellooooo. I'm aHorseman of the Apocalypse, and I'm betrothed to the most infamous, most powerful demon in existence. I couldn't draw more attention to myself i I wore Lady Gaga's meat dress to a PETA convention.
Larissa Ione
#43. Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming. In the evening, she made the most of her new tan in low-cut clinging evening dresses in white or black.
Kathleen Tessaro
#45. How you dress on the outside, it represents your soul.
Gucci Mane
#46. The girls were wild for dancing, and nothing else. No hearts beat underneath those thin, bright dresses. They laughed like glass.
Genevieve Valentine
#47. Ballet pumps are the dream shoes because they are so comfortable. They look great both with jeans and summer dresses; and you can even wear the right pair with an evening gown.
Twiggy
#48. I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work.
Sarah Lafleur
#49. As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#50. That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.
Susan Faludi
#51. For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.
Elle Fanning
#52. I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.
Eric Sennevoight
#53. My mother ... was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.
Annie Oakley
#54. There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
Fulton J. Sheen
#55. A woman says: I plan to cut the shoulder pads out of all my blouses and dresses and load them on a barge and dump them in Lake Winnipeg, creating a tidal wave which I'm told can be harnessed to provide electric power to the entire region.
Carol Shields
#56. These include coats, suits, jackets, skirts, and dresses. My standard is this: hang any clothes that look like they would be happier hung up, such as those made with soft materials that flutter in the breeze or highly tailored cuts, which protest at being folded. These we should hang willingly.
Marie Kondo
#57. They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.
Chrystos
#58. I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried
as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.
Kathy Lette
#59. I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
#60. It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
Kangana Ranaut
#61. Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.
Laura Bush
#62. When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.
Jodie Marsh
#64. My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.
Ashley Judd
#65. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."
Oh, God. I hated her so much.
Katherine Center
#67. Life is not a dress rehearsal - wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.
Andrew Wommack
#68. It was a lot of hard work, but everyone loved my Amy Childs' Collection, so I decided to have a boutique as well as my salon. I love designing my own dresses, and everyone is loving the collection. I can't believe how well the boutique and the clothing online is going.
Amy Childs
#69. You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.
Saint John Chrysostom
#70. I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
Gordon Lightfoot
#71. You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new.
Carolina Herrera
#72. My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.
Lauren Bush
#73. Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.
Tibor Kalman
#74. Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
Mark Twain
#75. The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.
Deepak Chopra
#76. No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
Charles Lamb
#77. Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.
Dave Barry
#78. The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.
Ashley Olsen
#79. I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.
Andie MacDowell
#80. Irritation hardened in Cinder's gut. She might have pointed out that Pearl and Peony could have been given ready-made rather than custom dresses in order to budget for Cinder's as well. She might have pointed out that they would only wear their dresses one time too.
Marissa Meyer
#81. A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
Coco Chanel
#82. The little black dress is the true friend ... she travels with you ... is patient and constant ... you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#83. Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
John Steinbeck
#84. I own some Victoria Beckham dresses; they make me feel great.
Louise Nurding
#85. So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
John Newton
#86. Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
Clement Of Alexandria
#87. A girl who never got tired of her favorite movies," he said softly. "Who saved dresses like ticket stubs. Who could get high on the weather ...
Rainbow Rowell
#88. Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.
China Machado
#89. I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood.
Daesung
#90. As a father of young girls, I want to publicly thank all women who dress and carry themselves like ladies. Your example is a gift.
Mark Hart
#91. Trannies dress up like women, then try to bang straight guys. They're the adrenaline junkies of gayness.
Dov Davidoff
#92. I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic. I take lots of pictures on my cell phone: 'Look, I'm dressed like a girl! Surprise!'
Analeigh Tipton
#93. I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
Tadashi Shoji
#94. Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.
Melissa De La Cruz
#95. I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.
Stephanie Seymour
#96. This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.
Janeane Garofalo
#97. I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself.
Iris Apfel
#98. Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.
Eric Metaxas
#99. I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.
Ashley Jensen
#100. The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I'd been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I'd gone thirty years without ascribing her any more dimension than the paper dollies I'd played with as a girl with the pasted on smiles and the folding tab dresses.
Kate Morton
