Garments Quotes

• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Clothes, Expectations

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

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• Love is a garment
  riven in the light
  that rises from Parnassus,
  showing
  the night is over.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Night, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.269, New Directions Publishing

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• A book? O, rare one,
  Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
  Nobler than that it covers.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, World

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.358

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• Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Vision

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Bags, Sexuality, Danger

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• Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Looks, Able, Hangers

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• A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

  David Dixon Porter

  Military, Marine, Buttons

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• What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

  Al Lewis

  Mom, Mother, Motivated

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• Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Birthday, Age, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.

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• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Cutting, Color

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• Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

  Giorgio Armani

  Inspirational, Educational, Organization

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Hands, Body, Weakness

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• As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Men

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• The body is a sacred garment.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Health

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

  Herodotus

  Remove

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• I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

  Erin O'Connor

  Thinking, Enough, Enthusiastic

  "Rags to riches: Erin O'Connor's fairtrade fashion". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments Im wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry.

  Hilary Rhoda

  Simple, Numbers, Important

  "All-American Beauty Hilary Rhoda Gives Up Her Style Secrets". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 19, 2012.

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• This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Morning, Lying

  'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Uplifting, War, People

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

  Maggie Grace

  Beach, Hawaii, Los Angeles

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• Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Self, Giving

  "The Devil Finds Work". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1976.

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• I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events.

  Lucy Fry

  Support, Trying, Friendly

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• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

  Georg Buchner

  Government, People, Body

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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