Finery Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been…
— Anna Sewell
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The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack,…
— Kevin Hart
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't…
— Henry Arthur Jones
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life,…
— Jamake Highwater
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding…
— Matthew Scully
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One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
— Grant Morrison
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As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to…
— Muriel Barbery
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She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been…
— Deanna Raybourn
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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery.…
— Marguerite Duras
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Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,†said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.
— Cassandra Clare
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I get no sense from his note at all,†said Will, bounding to his feet, “except that he can quote Tennyson’s lesser poetry. Sophie, how…
— Cassandra Clare
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Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the stories, rulers had…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors…
— Libba Bray
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How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.
— Russell Smith
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They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Money will buy u bed but not sleep, books but not brain, food but not appetite, finery but not beauty,a house but not a home,…
— Sweetner
Who Wrote These Finery Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Finery Quotes as follows: