"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners."
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on."
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"This dress code should be mandatory for most events."
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"[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."
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"Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge."
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"If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable."
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"A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty."
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"My fashion was not the best in the '80s. I looked crazy as hell. I used to wear my pants tucked into my socks and karate handkerchiefs around my wrist. It was ridiculous, how I used to dress in the '80s."
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"I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists."
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"I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started."
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"In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly."
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"I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'"
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"Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?"
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"I love flowy hippie dresses."
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"I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest."
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"No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up"
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"Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest."
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
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