Brogues Quotes

• Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Falling In Love, Optimistic, Men

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.126, Macmillan

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• I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Flower, People, Dresses

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

  Martin Short

  Father, Thinking, People

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• I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

  Graydon Carter

  Regret, Men, Thinking

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• I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

  Jaime King

  Red, Bigs, Carpet

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sorry, Kissing, Together

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Rain, Dark

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library

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• Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

  Ian Astbury

  Shoes, Sick, England

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

  Jodie Foster

  Play, Accents, Irish Accent

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Degrees, Bulls, Mouths

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148

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• The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

  Stephen Fry

  Gay, News, Critics

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