“If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
“She's all dressed up like a well-kept grave.”
In reference to Jan Duggan's character in The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
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Part 5, Chapter 3 (p. 243)
Artifact (1985)
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
Misattributed
“No doubt she was thinking, Who dressed this poor girl like a traffic light?”
Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle
Source: The Hidden Oracle
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
All the Wrong Reasons, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Book I, Chapter 1
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”
Silencer.
A→B Life (2002)