This collection holds 60 gowns quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Henny Youngman, Amy Jackson and Anita Loos.

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She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

I've always loved high style in low company.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

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

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

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

I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.

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

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

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

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

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

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.

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.

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.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

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.

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.

[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.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

I had four C-sections and my stomach looked like the map of the world. My breasts were hanging down to here from breastfeeding those babies, and my nipples were like platters. I wanted to fit into the gowns that I finally got to wear.

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.

We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

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