Dress Quotes

We dress ourselves up in lies,So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Graceful beauty is a modest appearance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The red lipstick? It's supposed to signal fertility and readiness to mate. Just like the swollen red butt of a baboon. That tight-fitting little dress that shows off your curves? From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, big breasts represent a healthy mate who can feed a lot of offspring. That's why men are programmed to like big tits. When you show off your curves, what you're really doing is advertising to the whole world: Look at me! I'm a healthy female! I'd be a perfect mate! Come mount me!

~ Oliver Markus

I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected.

~ Bianca Frazier

You look incredible, Kavanagh,” Quinn whispered close to my ear. “Are you trying to kill me?”“Ssshhh,” I hissed. “They’re going to hear you.”“I can’t tell my date she’s beautiful?”I turned my head. “No. No, you can’t.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.

~ Helena Bonham Carter

Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

~ Habeeb Akande

The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. (I'm Dangerous Tonight)

~ Cornell Woolrich

Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.

~ Jean Rhys

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

~ Zadie Smith

I had a dream about you. We were married and I walked into the room to see you in my new black dress and high heels and I said That's not what I meant when I said I bought them for you.

~ Georgia Saratsioti

Sometimes she walks through the village in herlittle red dressall absorbed in restraining herself,and yet, despite herself, she seems to moveaccording to the rhythm of her life to come.She runs a bit, hesitates, stops,half-turns around...and, all while dreaming, shakes her headfor or against.Then she dances a few stepsthat she invents and forgets,no doubt finding out that lifemoves on too fast.It's not so much that she steps outof the small body enclosing her,but that all she carries in herselffrolics and ferments.It's this dress that she'll rememberlater in a sweet surrender;when her whole life is full of risks,the little red dress will always seem right.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

~ Isabel Wolff

If there was a dress that could make a fashion-appreciative girl out of me, this was it. The colors shimmered from gunmetal to pewter, reminding me of frost on the hedgerows where the light caught. The V of the neck decoratively dipped towards what Martha told me was an empty line, where organza, the color of stormy skies, fell all the way to the floor.

~ Anouska Knight

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.

~ Ruth Reichl

Adorn yourself with modest dressing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

~ James Fenimore Cooper

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

~ Franz Kafka

Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.

~ Ania Szado

There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.

~ Elvis Costello

That dress was designed to be a kill switch for rational thought.

~ Kelly Moran

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

~ Vera Wang

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

~ Loretta Young

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

~ Bram Cohen

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

~ Imelda Marcos

In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

~ Hamish Bowles

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

~ Andrew Card

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

~ Bernie Mac

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

~ Bootsy Collins

I love shopping; I'm a jeans and a T-shirt kind of girl, but I go classy when I dress up - with a little bit of sexy.

~ Adrianne Palicki

I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don't just want to be, 'He dresses cool' or 'He dresses crazy.' You're going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.

~ Rickie Fowler

I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party?

~ Reem Acra

Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it's not about being 'cool,' it's just being me - that's understanding your place and your center - that's what swagger is, and I guess that's where the soul comes from.

~ Bj The Chicago Kid

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

~ Jacques Prévert

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It's very cool.

~ Tom Brady

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

~ Adrianne Palicki

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

~ Taylor Swift