Clothes Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman.”

— Oscar Wilde

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

— Anonymous

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand…

— Hunter S. Thompson

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least…

— Emma Bull

“There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she…

— Anonymous

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

— Louisa May Alcott

“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already…

— Christopher Rice

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization…

— Hortense Odlum