“But if I wanted shoes, and you had given me a piece of leather to make myself shoes, I should be laughed at if I took it.”
Diogenes Laertius
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classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BCRelated quotes

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”

Quoted in Ursula King, in "Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages" (2001)

“I am extravagant, but always with a particular piece: perhaps the shoes or the glasses…”
Source: From Watch word for style http://www.essence-magazine.co.uk/Interview_March_2017.html, essence-magazine.co.uk, March 2017.
Context: As the famous Italian actor Vittorio Gassman said: “You can just have one extravagant piece, more is not classy.”

Press call http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2630762.ece, October 2007

“I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.”