C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story.”
“Clothe yourself with harmonious style and a consistent message.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Clothed in my dignity, the only worthy garment, I go my way.”
Source: So Long a Letter
“Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.”
“Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.”
Source: An American Girl in London
“Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.”
“Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.”
“Clothes are a homeless man’s home.”
“Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.”
“Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.”
Source: Orlando: A Biography
“Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.”
“Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.”
“Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.”
“Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.”
“Clothes are incredibly symbolic.”
“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.”
Source: Style in costume
“Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.”
“Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.”
“Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.”
“Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.”
Source: Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion
“Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.”
Source: Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion
“Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.”
“Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.”
“Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.”
Source: The Book of Strange New Things
“Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.”
“Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.”
“Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.”
“Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.”
“Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will”
“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.”
Source: The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter
“Clothes attract the eyes,
Character attracts the soul.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.”
“Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!”
“Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.”
“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.”
“Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.”
Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
“Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.”
Source: Seeing Through Clothes
“Clothes can transform your mood and confidence.”
“Clothes, coffee, books, money, achievements, perfect circumstances . . . none of this can come close to bringing me the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Coffee Shop Devos: Daily Devotional Pick-Me-Ups for Teen Girls
“Clothes do not make the man, and boys are apt to overlook certain superficial peculiarities and defects which seem more significant to their elders. In Sam Bumpus they saw only a man of good humor and wonderful wisdom, a man whose manner of life was vastly more interesting than that of the common run of people, whose knowledge of the lore of woods and fields, of dogs and hunting, entitled him to a high place in their estimation. They overlooked the externals, the evidence of poverty and shiftlessness, his lack of education, and saw only his native wit and shrewdness, his kinship with the world of nature, and his goodness of heart.”
Source: The Dogs of Boytown
“Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.”
Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
“Clothes fade away, so does the body, but character is indestructible.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.”
“Clothes, hair, and skin. They were such small components of a person and yet, in True's experience, not much mattered more to most of the people she met. Being young or old didn't save you from judgement. The red-headed girl stuck out, a rose in a field of white lillies.”
Source: Crystal Key: Door to a New World
“Clothes, hair, and skin. They were such small components of a person and yet, in True's experience, not much mattered more to most of the people she met. Being Young or old didn't save you from judgment. The red-headed girl stuck out, a rose in a field of white lillies.”
Source: Crystal Key: Door to a New World
“Clothes have always had a wonderful influence on my physical well-being as well as my self-assurance. All I have to do to make me feel like a new and younger man is to order three new suits of clothes. My fur-lined overcoat gave me such a glow of health that very shortly after acquiring it I was able to enjoy the hazards of a Gargantuan studio cocktail party without a single twinge of pain.”
Source: It took nine tailors
“Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?”
“Clothes I wear for mushroom hunting are rarely sent to the cleaner. They constitute a collection of odors I produce and gather while rambling in the woods. I notice not only dogs (cats, too) are delighted (they love to smell me).”
Source: M: Writings '67–'72
“Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.”