Top Hats Quotes - Page 2

• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

  Helen McCrory

  Growing Up, Hair, High Heels

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• I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.

  Fred Astaire

  White, Ties, Tails

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• Top dog, top hat, move that muscle, move that fat.

  Elton John

  Dog, Moving, Dancing

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• I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Hats, Frisbee

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• Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

  James Laver

  Men, Different, Mars

  1969 The Concise History of Costume and Fashion, ch.8.

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• I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Gentleman, Doe, Coats

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Would Be, Anomalies, Coats

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.36, Ardent Media

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• My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Hate, Gun

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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