Wore Quotes
541 Wore quotes by 469 unique authors
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers…
— Beverly Cleary
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We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry…
— John Berger
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Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was…
— John le Carre
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Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were…
— C.S. Lewis
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Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
— Patricia Briggs
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There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore…
— Haruki Murakami
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I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on…
— Rob Sheffield
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She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.
— Woody Allen
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Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think…
— Marisha Pessl
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[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of…
— Virginia Woolf
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On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It…
— John Green
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As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
— Anna Godbersen
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It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there…
— Terry Pratchett
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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
— Susanna Clarke
Who Wrote These Wore Quotes
469 authors contributed a total of 541 Wore Quotes, led by these top contributors: