Gowns Quotes

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

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

I've always loved high style in low company.

I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

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.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

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

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]

I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.

Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.

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

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

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me. 'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!' - Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

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

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

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

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

Priests,
magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?