“ A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. ”
- Marguerite Young- Copy
- 1.3K
“ As soon as I get home from a day of work, I bathe, brush my hair, put on fresh makeup, and slip into a hostess gown. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company. ”
- Anita Loos- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I… chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 971
“ Actually, I wanted to be a toe dancer. My mother did an act in London. She had two girls who did a little ballet number while she changed gowns between the songs she was performing. And when the ballet slippers wore out, she brought them home to me. I put them on and could walk all over the house on my toes. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. ”
- Kit Williams- Copy
- 2.1K
“ They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments. ”
- Anna Lee- Copy
- 290
“ Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate. ”
- Ray Harryhausen- Copy
- 541
“ In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. ”
- Sir George Savile- Copy
- 1.6K
“ We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.3K
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