Suit Quotes

#1. His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#2. Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Arlo Guthrie

#3. The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.

Marquis De Sade

#4. I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Claire Danes

#5. A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.

Russell Smith

#6. I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. But hey, they work.

Andy Weir

#7. Seriously. Let. Go. Of. The. Car."
He let go of the car and said, "Suit yourself."
"It would suit me if I could travel back in time and not click 'book now' on that stupid webpage

Kristen Ashley

#8. He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

David Hume

#9. I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

Alan Alda

#10. But no. It didn't suit him. She should have known. He was not a one for fastening. For holding closed. Neither was he dark. Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold.

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. McCleary was an unpolished, semi attractive man in his late thirties or early forties. His hair was grey. His suit was cheap. His cologne was cheaper and his attitude was a hundred percent asshole. He have me an instant boner.

Dani Alexander

#12. Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.

Neel Burton

#13. If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

Bryan Singer

#14. When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

Simon Munnery

#15. It's medieval," Marcus said. "You might as well walk down the street in a suit of armor.

Tiffany Reisz

#16. Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Karen Traviss

#17. You can't reason with crazy people, no matter how sane they look in a suit.

Cecily White

#18. O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,
a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

Torquato Tasso

#19. Being discreet has never been your strong suit.

Jen Calonita

#20. So, my conservative-looking, suit-wearing boss has a tattoo and has his penis pierced?" I ask with a smile.
Nate laughs and takes another pull on his beer. "Yes. You didn't seem to mind the piercing, if memory serves correctly.

Kristen Proby

#21. I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

Vera Wang

#22. A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit - a panther ready to pounce.

Philip Roth

#23. I follow suit, said the lion,
vacating his coat of arms
and movie logos; and the eagle said,
Get me off this flag.

Margaret Atwood

#24. So when I'm in that teddy bear suit, I'm like a creepy, sexy baby.

Miley Cyrus

#25. Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

B.B. King

#26. I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne

Rio Ferdinand

#27. I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.

John Badham

#28. Simon Sparks was an oozing slug of a man poured neatly into a three-piece suit.

C. Robert Cargill

#29. The common feature of most of the successful people is, their talent is flexible to suit the needs of time.

Rajasaraswathii

#30. I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.

Charles Bukowski

#31. I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

Casey Nicholaw

#32. My advice is to sell any high tech company when the United States brings an antitrust suit, not because the company will be harmed by the suit, but because by the time the government understands a tech business well enough to sue it, the world has moved on.

John McGinnis

#33. I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I look like the other dudes. Style played a part in it. You're not really going to dress in a suit in a tie.

Michael Pena

#34. A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

Michael Kors

#35. Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

Ravi Zacharias

#36. A bra was not for little kids who dreamed of being astronauts. What are you gonna do with boobs in space? Unless they are currency for some far-flung civilization, all they're going to do is interfere with proper oxygen flow inside your space suit.

Aisha Tyler

#37. Ageing must be like wearing a heavy, itchy suit.

Tom Cardamone

#38. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Victor Hugo

#39. Everyone used to laugh at him because he was the first one to do it. This was all new to people and it took a bit for everyone to get used to it. Then ... yes, you've guessed, I too dyed my hair and other people followed suit as well and the punk explosion was about to hit the scene in a big way.

Stephen Richards

#40. People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

George Burns

#41. Clouds suit my mood just fine.

Marie Lu

#42. What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Anthony Trollope

#43. 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.

Neill Blomkamp

#44. Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time.

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. There's a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner.

Alice Oseman

#46. Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

Gail Carriger

#47. The tailor from 'Avatar' actually made my suit for 'Uncharted 3.' And no, it's not a hand-me-down from Sam Worthington. My 11-year-old would fit in Sam Worthington's. I'm 6' 1, 180 pounds.

Nolan North

#48. A wedding gown entails multilayering of expensive specialty fabrics for an outfit whose useful lifespan may come and go in a single afternoon. Much like a bomb suit.

Mary Roach

#49. But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.

Peter Mayhew

#50. Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

Jerome K. Jerome

#51. I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow suit. It's challenging at times, but I can only look forward to the future of business and philanthropy.

Blake Mycoskie

#52. I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Hugh Jackman

#53. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

Brendan I. Koerner

#54. I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

Augusten Burroughs

#55. Anton was in his office, short and wide behind the desk in a gabardine suit the color of lemon ice cream. His face was sunlamp brown.

Ross Macdonald

#56. For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

Kurt Braunohler

#57. We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.

Philippa Gregory

#58. I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

Greg Biffle

#59. He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.

Michel Faber

#60. I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.

Gerry Harvey

#61. Arrived - he desires nothing, because he is superior to all desire, because he has everything, because he is satiated, because he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#62. There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Tracy Hickman

#63. I was with a six-foot-four, athletic, angsty young man dressed in casual linen pants and matching fawn-colored shirt. Under it was a skintight two-piece suit of silk and spandex that had set us back a couple hundred dollars, but after seeing him in it, my head bobbed and my card came out.

Kim Harrison

#64. You should wear flames more often. They suit you.

Suzanne Collins

#65. At least I'm not pussy-whipped." "Nice. Fucking. Suit.

J.R. Ward

#66. I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

Dave Grohl

#67. Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

Johnny Carson

#68. Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.

George Hamilton

#69. His suit is perfectly pressed, his blond hair expertly combed,

Tahereh Mafi

#70. Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal ... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

Sergei Lavrov

#71. The distance of the fighting created the illusion of normalcy, but the new rules resulted in an attitude shift that did not suit the Administration's plans. They were going for structure, control, for panic that produced submission - what

Tea Obreht

#72. The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

Colin Beavan

#73. A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Horace

#74. I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.

Suzanne Collins

#75. Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?

Tom Selleck

#76. He looked good, like sin in a suit.

Melissa Marr

#77. You look good to me," he said, his eyes raking appreciatively over her. "I think ranch life must suit you."
"Thanks. You look good to me too." He was dressed in his customary faded jeans and a worn denim jacket, but Keith would look good in a burlap sack.

Victoria Vane

#78. The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Anne Sullivan

#79. I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

Daniel Jacobs

#80. A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

Kate Spade

#81. When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Craig Davidson

#82. I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.

Jane Austen

#83. When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

Carine Roitfeld

#84. If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#85. I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Iggy Azalea

#86. A policewoman, State, in a white paper hazmat suit, half unzipped, was standing in the middle of Porter, eating a pulled-pork sandwich. Flynne liked her haircut. Wondered if Tommy did. Then she wondered where you got a pulled-pork sandwich, this time of night.

William Gibson

#87. Mr. Tagomi turned to a passer-by, a thin man in rumpled suit. "What is that?" he demanded, pointing. The man grinned. "Awful, ain't it? That's the Embarcadero Freeway. A lot of people think it stinks up the view.

Philip K. Dick

#88. No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

W.S. Gilbert

#89. In the early '70s, coming out of the '60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatles all wearing the same suit. Into the '70s, it became much more about a personal style. You had the glam period, which was a lot of fun, and then you went into punk.

John Varvatos

#90. I pay attention to the sun. I've worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I'm playing, there's a rain suit in my bag, too.

Louis Oosthuizen

#91. Turquoise, yellow, pink, a lot of the pastel colors are some of the more popular suit colors this year. But it varies from old to young.

Amy Wright

#92. I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics.

Lapo Elkann

#93. Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a pitch fork, Satan would love for you to think of him as a harmless cartoon character, but don't be fooled ... Satan is anything but harmless.

David Jeremiah

#94. You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

Michael Palin

#95. I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it!

Krysten Ritter

#96. I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

Lusia Strus

#97. Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

William C. Bryant

#98. Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Thomas Carlyle

#99. Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Philip Larkin

#100. She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Ellen Burstyn