Undressing Quotes

• According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.

  Robert De Niro

  Funny, Sexy, Grateful

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• The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Wall, Home

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Special, Events

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• Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Expectations, Balance, Pajamas

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.287, Faber & Faber

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• Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Grief, Taken

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• Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

  Michael Chabon

  Zoos, Animal, Dams

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Conquer The World, Long

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Winner Stands Alone”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• I wouldn’t want you to get in the shower and then pass out or some such. How about if I help you get out of your clothes? I’m an expert in platonic undressings.” He gave me that wicked smile. “Give it a rest. I’m not going to strip naked in front of you, and I’d rather pee in private.” “Half the injuries in a home happen in the bathroom. What kind of friend would I be to let you face that kind of danger alone? I mean, sure, you walked out of death, but this is a shower.” “Shame. Get out of my bathroom.

  Devon Monk

  Home, Mean, Clothes

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Two, Categories

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• Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

  Lord Byron

  Fashion, Clothes, Balls

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing.

  Denise Duhamel

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, People, Might

  Miranda July (2015). “The First Bad Man”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Christian, Kings

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• "Keep looking at me,” she said, laughing as though we were having an amusing conversation. “He’s staring at you. And I mean staring. That boy is undressing you with his eyes. Can you feel it?” Her expression was triumphant.
  Could I feel his stare? I can now, thanks, I thought.

  Tammara Webber

  Mean, Eye, Boys

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, 2012.

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• To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all.

  Mooji

  Garments

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• The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.

  Colin Wilson

  Girl, Sex, Offering

  Colin Wilson (1988). “The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders”

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• I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Micah

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2767, Penguin

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• Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Children, Food

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• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  William James

  Happiness, Pain, Routine

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Daily Tasks, Insulting, England

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• I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

  Aimee Bender

  Clothes, Dating, Skins

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