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Familiar Quotations

Dresses

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.–Anonymous

A wife is a person who can look in the top drawer of a dresser and find a man's handkerchief that isn't there.–Anonymous

Teenagers express their burning desires to be different by dressing exactly alike.–Anonymous

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.–Anonymous

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.–Djuna Barnes

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.–Lucinda Basset

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.–Walter Benjamin

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.–John Berger

Your outfit's nice too. But at least when I dress like a fridgid bitch, I try not to look so constipated.–Legally Blonde

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.–Beau Brummel

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Dresses 1
• Dresses – "Decoration" 4
• Dresses – "Disguise" 4
• Dresses – "Drape" 4
• Use in Literature 5
• Dresses 5
• Dresses – "Air" 21
• Dresses – "Alike" 22
• Dresses – "Answer" 22
• Dresses – "Appearance" 23
• Dresses – "Armed" 25
• Dresses – "Art" 26
• Dresses – "Article" 27
• Dresses – "Attention" 28
• Dresses – "Bad" 28
• Dresses – "Bath" 29
• Dresses – "Beautiful" 30
• Dresses – "Bed" 31
• Dresses – "Being" 33
• Dresses – "Best" 34
• Dresses – "Big" 35
• Dresses – "Black" 35
• Dresses – "Blue" 40
• Dresses – "Bodies" 41
• Dresses – "Bought" 42
• Dresses – "Boys" 42
• Dresses – "Brown" 43
• Dresses – "Buy" 43
• Dresses – "Called" 44
• Dresses – "Candle" 44
• Dresses – "Care" 45
• Dresses – "Carriage" 46
• Dresses – "Caught" 48
• Dresses – "Changed" 48
• Dresses – "Character" 50
• Dresses – "Chiefly" 51
• Dresses – "Child" 51
• Dresses – "Clean" 53
• Dresses – "Closed" 53
• Dresses – "Clothes" 54
• Dresses – "Colours" 56
• Dresses – "Came" 57
• Dresses – "Completed" 62
• Dresses – "Cook" 63
• Dresses – "Costume" 63
• Dresses – "Country" 63
• Dresses – "Cut" 64
• Dresses – "Dancing" 65
• Dresses – "Dark" 65
• Dresses – "Daughter's" 66
• Dresses – "Day" 67
• Dresses – "Decent" 69
• Dresses – "Differently" 69
• Dresses – "Dinners" 70
• Dresses – "Disordered" 71
• Dresses – "Doctor" 71
• Dresses – "Doubts" 72
• Dresses – "Drew" 72
• Dresses – "Easily" 73
• Dresses – "Effect" 74
• Dresses – "Elegance" 74
• Dresses – "End" 75
• Dresses – "Evening" 75
• Dresses – "Everything" 76
• Dresses – "Eyes" 77
• Dresses – "Faces" 78
• Dresses – "Falling" 79
• Dresses – "Farther" 79
• Dresses – "Fashionably" 80
• Dresses – "Features" 82
• Dresses – "Feet" 82
• Dresses – "Felt" 83
• Dresses – "Few" 84
• Dresses – "Figure" 85
• Dresses – "Fingers" 86
• Dresses – "Finished" 87
• Dresses – "Fire" 87
• Dresses – "Following" 88
• Dresses – "Forms" 88
• Dresses – "Found" 89
• Dresses – "Friendly" 91
• Dresses – "Full" 92
• Dresses – "Fur" 93
• Dresses – "Garments" 93
• Dresses – "Gentlemen" 94
• Dresses – "Girl" 94
• Dresses – "Go" 95
• Dresses – "Gold" 98
• Dresses – "Gone" 98
• Dresses – "Gown" 99
• Dresses – "Grace" 99
• Dresses – "Gray" 100
• Dresses – "Great" 101
• Dresses – "Green" 103
• Dresses – "Grey" 104
• Dresses – "Grew" 104
• Dresses – "Habited" 105
• Dresses – "Hair" 106
• Dresses – "Hand" 109
• Dresses – "Handsome" 111
• Dresses – "Hung" 112
• Dresses – "Hat" 112
• Dresses – "Having" 113
• Dresses – "Head" 114
• Dresses – "Heard" 115
• Dresses – "Helped" 115
• Dresses – "Herself" 116
• Dresses – "Hide" 118
• Dresses – "Hope" 119
• Dresses – "Hour" 119
• Dresses – "Houses" 120
• Dresses – "Hurriedly" 121
• Dresses – "Husband" 122
• Dresses – "Idea" 122
• Dresses – "Jacket" 123
• Dresses – "Journey" 123
• Dresses – "Keep" 123
• Dresses – "Kind" 124
• Dresses – "King's" 125
• Dresses – "Kitchen" 125
• Dresses – "Knees" 126
• Dresses – "Ladies" 126
• Dresses – "Laid" 128
• Dresses – "Language" 128
• Dresses – "Large" 129
• Dresses – "Late" 130
• Dresses – "Left" 130
• Dresses – "Little" 132
• Dresses – "Look" 136
• Dresses – "Loose" 140
• Dresses – "Lost" 140
• Dresses – "Loveliness" 141
• Dresses – "Made" 141
• Dresses – "Man" 145
• Dresses – "Manner" 149
• Dresses – "Master" 151
• Dresses – "Material" 151
• Dresses – "Matter" 152
• Dresses – "Means" 153
• Dresses – "Moment" 153
• Dresses – "Morning" 154
• Dresses – "Mother" 156
• Dresses – "Moved" 157
• Dresses – "Myself" 158
• Dresses – "Native" 158
• Dresses – "Naturally" 159
• Dresses – "Near" 159
• Dresses – "Neatly" 160
• Dresses – "Night" 162
• Dresses – "Nothing" 162
• Dresses – "Notice" 163
• Dresses – "Observed" 164
• Dresses – "Occasion" 164
• Dresses – "Old" 165
• Dresses – "Once" 167
• Dresses – "Opening" 168
• Dresses – "Orderly" 170
• Dresses – "Others" 171
• Dresses – "Particularly" 171
• Dresses – "Paid" 174
• Dresses – "Peasant's" 175
• Dresses – "People" 175
• Dresses – "Perfection" 177
• Dresses – "Person" 177
• Dresses – "Piece" 179
• Dresses – "Pink" 180
• Dresses – "Place" 180
• Dresses – "Plain" 181
• Dresses – "Pleasure" 183
• Dresses – "Pointed" 184
• Dresses – "Poor" 185
• Dresses – "Present" 186
• Dresses – "Prevailing" 188
• Dresses – "Princess" 188
• Dresses – "Putting" 189
• Dresses – "Quietly" 190
• Dresses – "Ragged" 190
• Dresses – "Ready" 191
• Dresses – "Returned" 192
• Dresses – "Richer" 192
• Dresses – "Robes" 194
• Dresses – "Room" 195
• Dresses – "Rose" 197
• Dresses – "Rough" 197
• Dresses – "Run" 198
• Dresses – "Save" 199
• Dresses – "Scenery" 199
• Dresses – "Sent" 200
• Dresses – "Seven" 201
• Dresses – "Shall" 201
• Dresses – "Show" 201
• Dresses – "Side" 203
• Dresses – "Silk" 203
• Dresses – "Simplicity" 204
• Dresses – "Sitting" 207
• Dresses – "Skirts" 209
• Dresses – "Soldiers" 209
• Dresses – "Sooner" 210
• Dresses – "Standing" 211
• Dresses – "Stepping" 211
• Dresses – "Strange" 212
• Dresses – "Street" 213
• Dresses – "Studying" 213
• Dresses – "Stuff" 214
• Dresses – "Style" 214
• Dresses – "Suit" 215
• Dresses – "Table" 216
• Dresses – "Talking" 217
• Dresses – "Tall" 218
• Dresses – "Tastes" 219
• Dresses – "Thing" 221
• Dresses – "Thought" 222
• Dresses – "Thus" 224
• Dresses – "Times" 225
• Dresses – "Torn" 225
• Dresses – "Touch" 226
• Dresses – "Tried" 226
• Dresses – "Trouble" 227
• Dresses – "True" 227
• Dresses – "Uniforms" 228
• Dresses – "Upstairs" 228
• Dresses – "Velvet" 229
• Dresses – "Wait" 229
• Dresses – "Walked" 229
• Dresses – "Want" 230
• Dresses – "Way" 231
• Dresses – "Wore" 232
• Dresses – "White" 238
• Dresses – "Wives" 242
• Dresses – "Woman" 243
• Dresses – "Wonder" 247
• Dresses – "Worked" 248
• Dresses – "Wounds" 248
• Dresses – "Years" 249
• Dresses – "Yellow" 250
• Dresses – "Young" 250
• Dresses – "Yourself" 252
• Nonfiction Usage 254
• Lyrical Usage 254
• Script Usage 254
• Journalism Usage 255
• Legal Usage 265
• Governmental Usage 265
• Patent Usage 265
• Bibliographic Usage 267
• Encyclopedic Usage 285
• Lexicographic Usage 313
• Index 440