Gowns Quotes

Gowns Quote of the day

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

I've always loved high style in low company.

I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag.

[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned to her, wrapped in my thin gown, and said: I am.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]

I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

I shall go Up and down In my gown. Gorgeously arrayed, Boned and stayed.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him.

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.

So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.

We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.

a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.