Moliere Quotes

London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still always amazed by the style of French girls, and the only reason is that they dress according to themselves and not according to fashion. They know what suits them.

Women can learn from men and improve their 'chic.' A man wouldn't think of wearing a tight shoe or one that didn't harmonize with his suit.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

... clothes sometimes gave one more of a lift than any philosophic comforting.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

Don't think too much of style.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.