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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Quote by Jane Austen

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to...

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

Quote by John Galliano about change, people

Dressing is a way of life.

Dressing is a way of life.

Quote by Yves Saint Laurent about fashion, life

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Quote by Peter O'Toole about writing, art, magic

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that...

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

Quote by John Galliano about body

Where there is a dress, there is a woman, if there is no...

Where there is a dress, there is a woman, if there is no woman, there is no dress.

Quote by Coco Chanel about woman

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Quote by Victoria Abril about sun

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's...

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Quote by Joseph Addison about heads, nature, things

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools...

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about opinion, architecture, painting, poetry, man

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's...

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Quote by Charles Dickens about good, good luck, man

And then, it is not an office job: I build my production teams, I follow the beginning of the rehearsals, the dress rehearsal, the premiere, which leaves me time to go and attend other opera performances, to find new singers for my future...

Quote by Placido Domingo about career, beginning, future, time

I was so poor. They wouldn't let me on the floor as a...

I was so poor. They wouldn't let me on the floor as a salesperson, because I was so poorly dressed. And so I was the stockroom boy.

Quote by Josh Duhamel

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like...

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Quote by Glenn Close

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about children, world

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Quote by John Galliano about joy, art, magic

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any...

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Quote by Greta Garbo about common sense, sense, man, nothing

In the '40s and '50s, Havana was the Paris of the...

In the '40s and '50s, Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Everyone was always well-dressed.

Quote by Andy Garcia

My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said...

My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

Quote by Andy Garcia about family

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

Quote by Larry Hagman about clothes, dream, things

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about change, old, olderness, things, day

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