Peter Graves Quotes

Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.

A suit is a sign of respect.

A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

I get more disgusted with men all the time - particularly traveling Americans. They start out on a trip to Europe and never bother to pack a dinner jacket. This is not only stupid - it's bad manners.

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

I don't really wear sarees and suits.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

It's important to match your style with the occasion.

The more conservative you dress, the more you can get away with.

Make sure that when you're going out, you wear socks, because I've been seeing some people coming out with no socks and that. You know, your toes looking like Cheetos. We don't need all of that.

I want to break down the wall of, you know, you have to put on a jacket and tie, and you have to act a certain way, and you have to know how to order the right kind of wine. All these things have suddenly been built up around jazz and the way it's presented.

I don't do interviews without a collared shirt.

Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.