Tailor Quotes

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So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. — Desmond Dekker
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so… — Lamar Boschman
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on… — John Harington
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The… — John Dryden
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. — Karl Marx
Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I… — Ginnifer Goodwin
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. — Albert Einstein
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always… — Michael Kors
I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it. — Dolly Parton
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. — Zig Ziglar
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots… — P.G. Wodehouse
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would… — William Shakespeare
I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him… — Martine Leavitt
You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and thereâ€™s a little thing outside called the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta… — Beatrix Potter
These prinÂciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never… — Leo Tolstoy
I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? Youâ€™re destroying me. Youâ€™re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for… — Marguerite Duras
ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. — Ambrose Bierce
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor… — Claire Messud
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old… — George Bernard Shaw

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