Gowns quotes
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"[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."
"You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense."
"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."
"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."
"There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise."
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"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 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."
"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing."
"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."
"In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern."
"Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin"
"I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment."
"He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true."
"I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup."
"I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses."
"I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown."
"[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."
"Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly."
"Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns."
