Top 62 Quotes About Savile Row
#1. I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.
Paul Weller
#2. Ask Bond-watchers of a certain age about the six actors who have slipped into Bond's Savile Row suits in the Broccoli franchise, and they might say it's really Connery and five other guys - since he, being first and being Sean, stamped the role with his sulfurous masculinity.
Richard Corliss
#3. Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.
George Hamilton
#4. Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.
Lapo Elkann
#5. Winter reveals the massive, complex, muscular organization of the ancient oak. Like an old man stripped of his Savile Row, tailored suit - no less impressive in his mature nakedness.
William Boyd
#6. He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could've gone either way, the mob or something legitimate, and somehow ended up in the middle as a lawyer.
Dave Zeltserman
#7. I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp
#9. their heart: 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves
Henry Savile
#10. When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
#11. Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile
#12. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
George Savile
#13. The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile
#14. Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
George Savile
#15. Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile
#17. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile
#19. Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
Jimmy Savile
#20. A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile
#23. Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile
#24. The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile
#26. I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.
Jimmy Savile
#27. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile
#28. I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
Jimmy Savile
#29. The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile
#30. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile
#31. Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
#34. Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
Jimmy Savile
#35. Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile
#36. Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Jimmy Savile
#37. I don't drink. Never taken a drug in my life ever. In fact from a newspaper point of view I'm very boring. I don't do anything. I don't drink no booze, no drugs, no kinky carryings on, don't go to brothels.
Jimmy Savile
#38. Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile
#39. The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile
#40. There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
George Savile
#41. Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile
#42. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile
#44. He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
George Savile
#46. Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile
#47. A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.
Jimmy Savile
#50. When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile
#52. I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.
Jimmy Savile
#54. No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
#56. Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile
#58. A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile
#59. If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile
#60. Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile
#61. The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.
George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax
#62. They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile
