Black Quote by A. A. Gill

It's common sense to wear black when announcing your country's funeral!...

— Mariana Fulger

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

“Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have to wear…

— Courtney C. Stevens

“Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate.”

— Harlan Coben

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have…

— Jean Pigozzi

People dress up for funerals. Why not dress up to celebrate that you’re alive?

— Gay Talese

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be…

— John Steinbeck

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

— Thomas Lynch

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a…

— Daniele Vare

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think…

— Winifred Holtby

“A black suit always goes well at a funeral.”

— Allan Dare Pearce