Top 100 Tailor Quotes
#1. I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.
David Finch
#2. Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#3. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#4. A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
Franz Grillparzer
#5. The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.
George Orwell
#6. The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
Ruth Reichl
#7. The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, white and uncrumpled. Skinny Wilma flaps her handkerchief. The cabbage white flies through her forehead and into her head.
Herta Muller
#8. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Herman Melville
#9. Styles are tailor made to different situations. Different leaders must have their own styles and these styles must be able to adapt to different people and situations.
John Ng
#10. I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton
#11. I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.
Bob Goff
#12. It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage ... I don't know ... there's too much of it out there.
Phil Anselmo
#13. Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.
John Ford
#14. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#15. I don't think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state ... so that you can tailor your governing to the people's needs.
Stacey Dash
#16. A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
John Ruskin
#17. I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician ... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
#18. If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
Peter Jennings
#20. Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
Warren Farrell
#21. North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.
Michael Kors
#22. The only perfection available to you without compromise is that of intention and effort. If you endeavor to be the best pencil sharpener you can be, and tailor your actions accordingly, you can be certain all else will be forgiven in the final accounting.
David Rees
#23. Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that both is tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration. That is not easily explained, and raises the natural question of why it is that way.
Stephen Hawking
#24. The big budget films have money to do things that are not necessarily essential but sure are comforting. The catering is usually much better. And you have way more of anything you could possibly need. You definitely get a trailer. My shirt and suit for 'Million Dollar Baby' were tailor made.
Mike Colter
#25. I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.
Tina Fey
#26. The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
John Dryden
#27. My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that.
Drew Goddard
#28. I bumped into freakish backpackers, made random friends and heard some unusual stories in the time that I spent there. But more than anything, I realized that if ever there was a place tailor made for self-discovery, it would have to be Rishikesh.
Sachin Garg
#29. People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There
Mark Twain
#30. A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#32. It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
James Iha
#33. I'm on page 65 of 368 of Sleepless: I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.
Charlie Huston
#34. God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. I don't believe that any question is too big, you simply have to tailor your answers.
Nina George
#36. Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit.
Leslie Charteris
#37. I help people with not just the 'what' but the 'how' and tailor for individual needs
Matt Prior
#38. Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.
H.L. Mencken
#39. I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
Lapo Elkann
#40. When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.
Carrie Vaughn
#41. She was wearing a brown tailor-made and from a strap over her shoulder hung one of those awkward-looking square bags that make you think of a Sister of Mercy taking first aid to the wounded.
Raymond Chandler
#42. Camille, a few feet away, looked like a gypsy who had mislaid his violin and had been searching for it in a hedgerow; he frustrated daily the best efforts of an expensive tailor, wearing his clothes as a subtle comment on the collapsing social order.
Hilary Mantel
#43. Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
Karl Marx
#44. Then tailor him," Kaz said coldly. The challenge in Kaz's eyes was clear. So he knew she'd been struggling. Of course he did. Dirtyhands never missed a trick.
Leigh Bardugo
#45. I don't say I create. I copy, of course. I've never been interested in the point of view of the tailor or creator. Fashion is a visual impression. This is why I often refuse the name of fashion designer. It's a superficial, stupid job. The social-psychological aspect is more interesting.
Franco Moschino
#46. A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes.
Olivia Palermo
#47. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#48. SHYLOCK
You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter's flight.
SALARINO
That's certain; I for my part knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal.
William Shakespeare
#50. I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself.
Martine Leavitt
#51. I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
Waris Ahluwalia
#52. The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
Jacob Grimm
#53. The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into custom. People never quite recover from my cravats, but they will never find the equal of my tailor. To be memorable is all, when it comes to dress.
Timothy Findley
#54. I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.
Jennifer Donnelly
#55. The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.
Rian Johnson
#56. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, who said to his tailor Irving, Forget the slacks - please work on the blazer! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#57. Our service programming teams view themselves as partners in evangelism with our members and regular attendees. Does that mean we tailor the content to non-Christians? Nope. We tailor the experience to non-Christians. There's a big difference.
Andy Stanley
#58. ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. To get along with others, and also become a successful leader know how to provide tailor made feedback that leads to performance improvement...
Assegid Habtewold
#60. And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
Amy Irving
#61. A supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream
Alain De Botton
#62. God's the seamtress that tailor-fitted my pain yo I got scriptures in my brain I can spit at yo dane straight the good book, look, niggas is shook 50 fear no man, warrior swing swords like conana
Curtis Jackson
#63. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Mark Twain
#64. I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
Waris Ahluwalia
#65. The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
#66. If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a tailor, as I always do; find the style you like, and have it fitted to your shape.
Tamer Hassan
#67. 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
#68. Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.
RuPaul
#69. The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
George Bernard Shaw
#70. My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
William Banting
#71. There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
Andrew Jackson
#72. The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.
Colin Quinn
#75. The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#76. So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.
Desmond Dekker
#77. I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.
Geoff Zanelli
#79. If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
Matt Bomer
#80. You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#81. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus
John Le Carre
#82. You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
Jewel
#83. You let him go alone? (Kat)
Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there's a little thing outside called the sun ... yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn't be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. I went out of my way to make 'Immortal' sound perfect. 'Immortal,' 'Just What I Am,' and 'King Wizard,' those are perfect beats. Not a lot of people can perform on them. I say that meaning they're tailor-made for me.
Kid Cudi
#85. Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.
William Shakespeare
#86. These were the rare cases in which you gave permission to a stranger to enter your personal space. You trusted the expertise proffered, and enjoyed the promise that the opaque maneuvers of this stranger's hands would yield a result. The tailor, simply by doing his job that day, comforted me.
Teju Cole
#87. A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
Nick Cave
#88. Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#89. 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
#90. Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.
Thelma Golden
#91. The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu
Sung Yee Poon
#92. I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
John Woolman
#93. What I've always found about going to a tailor is that it's a little bit daunting. You don't know exactly what it's going to look like, it's hard to know who to go to, and it's still a very expensive proposition.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#94. My grandmother Rose was a tough woman, so tough she'd built the family home with her own hands while my grandpa worked as a tailor in the market. She'd even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman.
William Kamkwamba
#95. I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.
Brenda Russell
#96. Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.
Douglas Coupland
#97. You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.
Mike Krieger
#98. So you carry needle and thread about in your pockets, do you?" Sophia asked.
"My tailor insists.
Sharon Cameron
#99. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#100. Von Neumann, by contrast, wore a three-piece suit at almost all times, including on a donkey ride down the Grand Canyon; even as a student he was so well dressed that, upon first meeting him, the mathematician David Hilbert reportedly had but one question: Who is his tailor?45
Walter Isaacson