"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character"
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"would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."
"I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time."
"Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding."
"I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses."
"The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse."
"Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects."
"A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]"
"Faire words makes mee looke to my purse."
"A good prayer is master of anothers purse."
"A drunkards purse is a bottle."
"You don't touch the purse. The purse is sacrosanct."
"A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse."