Quotes About Neckties

#1. I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

Linda Ellerbee

#2. The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow.

Tom Wolfe

#3. A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.

Tracey Ullman

#4. Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

Harry Anderson

#5. I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.

Michael Chabon

#7. I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Susan Orlean

#8. There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.

Finley Peter Dunne

#10. Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Linda Ellerbee

#12. No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow to wide, I kept all my old ones until the style went back to narrow.

Lee Iacocca

#13. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#14. We change ideas like neckties.

Emile M. Cioran

#15. We can all look at life and agree that there are some parts that have no purpose - like neckties or cats.

Matt Chandler

#16. It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Lin Yutang

#18. An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow "Buchanan" sett used to make men's nylon Y-front underpants.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. Stick it up your crack, you warped son of a mutant b*tch!

Darren Shan

#20. The writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Flannery O'Connor

#21. I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

Jane Krakowski

#22. Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

Donovan L. Graham

#23. More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Dean Spade

#24. High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

AnnaSophia Robb