Best Tweed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.”

Grows Corners Cambridge Tweed

Author:Stephen Fry

“Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.”

Knows Littles Ends Guy Cutting Intellectual Foundation Suits Grants Frogs Dead Ends Tweed

Author:Woody Allen

“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”

Running School Dies Literature Class Century Thread Twentieth Century Snobbery Tweed Sappers

Author:Alan Bennett

“Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.”

Giving Long Doe War States Guy Honest Election Thanks Damn Usa Voting Boss Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn Tweed Nominating

Author:L. Neil Smith

“I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.”

Years Book Country Born Tweed

Book:The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two

Source: The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two

“I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.”

Long Speak Pay Dresses Guides Cards Mysterious Code Native Nazi Tribes Linen Navel Dress Code Gigolo Tweed

Book:Foetal Attraction

Source: Foetal Attraction

“[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.”

Men Littles Artist Leader Gay One Day Band Jazz Musical Delicate Marvelous Coats Gallery Animated Jazz Band Tweed Kandinsky

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.”

Ifs Kind Girl Hot Suits Pairs Jeans Jackets Converses Kind Of Girl Tweed

Author:Rachel Zoe

“If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.”

Ifs Writing Wells Looks Made I Can Book Reader Lists Coats Thrillers Sellers Best Sellers Connecticut Tweed

Author:John Updike

“I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.”

University Shirts Graduates Buttons Jackets Harvard Tweed Harvard University

Author:J. Anthony Lukas

“The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.”

Years Long Art Lines Quality Cutting Materials Areas Islands Native Hats Shore Chicago Boston San Francisco County Philadelphia Snob Good Quality Long Island Peninsulas Tweed

Author:Russell Lynes

“I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.”

Looks Feminine Fabric Masculine Mixing Blazers Masculine And Feminine Tweed

Author:Milla Jovovich

“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”

Soul Confession Remedy Coats Confessing Tweed

Author:Peter De Vries

“To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.”

People Suits Mature Gray Suits You Tweed Confident In Yourself

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.”

Trying Littles Bits Figures Little Bit Closets Jackets Skating Figure Skating Tweed

Author:Johnny Weir

“Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.”

Two Seems Culture Food Cooking Warm Smell Dust Characteristics Gas Culinary Athens Garlic Tweed

Book:Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

Source: Labels: A Mediterranean Journal

“The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.”

Has Beens Sports Figures Standing Starting Boards Barriers Controlled Packs Inspirational Sports Leather Silk Tarot Pageant Jockeys Racehorses Tweed

Author:Kevin Hart

“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.”

Sometimes States Government New York Taxes Models Lows Performances Down And Corruption Boss One Time Backwards Disgrace Upside Down State Government Albany New York State High Taxes Tweed

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.”

Belief Women Contrary Contrary To Popular Belief Tweed

Author:Hermione Gingold

“My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.”

Stills Book Sky Summer Depth Greed Buying Purses Mead Thames Tweed

Author:A. Edward Newton

“Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.”

“I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.”

Kids School Beautiful Remember Father Parent Sides Cutting Son Mountain Knives Overcoat Tweed

Author:Charles Frazier