Gown Quotes

124 quotes by 107 authors

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish… — Moliere
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. — Martin Luther
I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London,… — Victoria Beckham
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense. — Moliere
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man… — Michel de Montaigne
Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of… — Walter Raleigh
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. — Douglas William Jerrold
I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag. — Joan Rivers
Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One… — Elle Fanning
Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked… — Beatrix Potter
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell… — John Milton
Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my â€¦Â chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the… — Margaret Thatcher
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If… — Anne Perry
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith
A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown. — Friedrich Nietzsche
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of… — Clive James
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science,… — Carl Jung
Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice. — Eileen Chang

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