“Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.” WantRegardDressesSatisfiedInsaneWitnessCoquette Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.” MenCommonVirtueGoodnessRegardDressesReputationDecentHypocrisyCostumesBad Reputation Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.” YearsLooksAgeFacesYoungPassionForgetOpinionWrittenPleaseRegardDressesDecayWrinklesCoquette Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.” MayPersonsChoicesStyleColorIncreaseRegardDressesAttendingMisled Author:William Shenstone
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.” AmericaChoicesCareersHistoryModernBehaviorRegardIndependentDressesCapitalistOrientationFreedom Of ChoiceIndependent WomenBeing Independent Woman Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.” IfsWantMindIdeasCertainMistakeCasesObjectsPleaseRegardDressesStoresFulfillingGreat Mistakes Author:Paramahansa Yogananda