"The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens."
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"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
"You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them."
"Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"
"If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
"Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual."
"Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while."
"Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again."
"What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear."
"Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things."
"I swear, I wanna be your underwear."
"She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan."
"I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie."
"What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in."
"Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too."
"I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind."
"Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day."
"When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat."
"So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants."
"Well, at least I had on underwear"
"My underwear is my own person buisness."