Corsets Quote by Jonathan Bailey

“I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers…

— Gwenn Wright

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally…

— Christopher Ryan

“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They were all…

— Kate Morton

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind…

— Emily Hampshire

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I…

— Emma Watson

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

— Gustave Flaubert

I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned…

— Laura Moriarty

“All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Why can't we accept the human form as it is?" screams no one. I don't know why, but we never have. That's why people…

— Tina Fey

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the…

— Audrey Tautou

Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation…

— Lily Collins