Clothing Quotes and Sayings - Page 3



No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still trying to live down.
David Copperfield

Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you – and it won’t hurt your feelings – like it’s happening to your clothing.”
Marilyn Monroe

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston Churchill

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
Will Rogers

I don’t know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

What a man most enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
Brendan Francis

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
Lucy Stone

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorn

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
August Strindberg

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.
Pam Brown

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.
Ambrose Bierce

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Murray Banks

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
Benny Hill

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
Frederick G. Banting

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

The computer is the most extraordinary of man’s technological clothing; it’s an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
Marshall McLuhan

His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.
Philip Dormer Stanhope

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me – American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
Andree Putman

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker

Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.
Anonymous

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
Coco Chanel

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater…. suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn’t.
Bob Morris

What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?
A.J. Esther

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