Gowns Quotes

I shall go
Up and down
In my gown.
Gorgeously arrayed,
Boned and stayed.

Amy Lowell

Up And Down

Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.60, Rutgers University Press

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You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Carolina Herrera

Balls, Should, Very Romantic

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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Nina Simone

Dream, Kissing, Years

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Don't let the clothes or anyone define you...just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.

Tweet

Being Yourself, Jeans, Clothes

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Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Fashion, I Hate You, Worst Enemy

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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

Beautiful, Night, Hair

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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Douglas William Jerrold

Love, Wedding, World

Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.28

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The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.

Sarah MacLean

Beautiful, Believe, Differences

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Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

Dorothy Parker

Fashion, Heart, Men

"Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words".

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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Susanna Clarke

Regret, Rain, Color

Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Women, Cutting

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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Epictetus

Purple, White, Long

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I've always loved high style in low company.

Anita Loos

Style, Sawdust, Lows

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Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Clothes, Vibrations

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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

William Shakespeare

Adversity, Clothes, Vices

William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

Susanna Clarke

Heart, Pockets

Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.464, Bloomsbury Publishing

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I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

P. G. Wodehouse

Wind, Rushing, Flew

P. G. Wodehouse (1991). “The great sermon handicap”, James H. Heineman

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Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

Eloisa James

Dresses, Sometimes, Feels

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We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.

Erykah Badu

Color, My Favorite, Minutes

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when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

Laetitia Pilkington

Hypocrisy, Sin, Committed

Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.156, University of Georgia Press

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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Heinrich Heine

Light, Blue, Dragons

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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

Vera Wang

Artist, Past, Giving

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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

Anniversary, Wedding, Wife

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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

Wedding, Opportunity, Dresses

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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

Life, Fall, Passion

William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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