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Gowns Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Jane Austen
Fate, Gowns, Impatient
Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Honore de Balzac
Two, Gowns, Balls

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

Honore de Balzac
Gowns, Never Quit, Priests

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.

Gail Carriger
Eye, Water, Gowns

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

Erykah Badu
Color, Gowns, My Favorite

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

Eloisa James
Dresses, Gowns, Sometimes

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

Austin Scarlett
Gowns, Why Not, Littles
Source: www.nbcnews.com

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.

Anna Brownell Jameson
Heart, Hands, Gowns

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

Amy Lowell
Hair, Fans, Gowns
Amy Lowell (2004). “Selected Poems”

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

Amy Lowell
Women, Gowns, Marble
Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

Amy Lowell
Hands, Water, Gowns
Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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