“The gowns all came in shades of frost white, pearl pink, romantic blue, and fresh cream. Some were simple sheaths. Others had… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
I am in a fabulously lucky position in that I get to wear beautiful, beautiful gowns for functions, which I can then… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn,… — Julie Macklowe Copy Share Image
“Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options:… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
After Theda Bara appeared in A Fool There Was, a vampire wave surged over the country. Women appeared in vampire gowns, pendant… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
Coming from the theatre I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns and I get to be a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
“Racks holding covered white gowns. Like plastic aliens, hanging and shrouded, waiting to be returned to the mother ship.” — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look? — William Feather Copy Share Image
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image