“This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.”

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

“A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down -- so their legs are entirely mysterious -- they could have one leg or two inside that dress… A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“And there's a
turbulent moon-ridden girl
or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers
and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs
but she is not kind… ”

Дениз Левертов (1923–1997)

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“tanith: have you called the police?
fergus: they, uh, they said theyd call by this afternoon.
tanith: tell them not to bother… im his doctor.
beryl: what kind of doctor dresses in brown leather?
tanith: the kind that looks good init”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

“There's in my mind a…
turbulent moon-ridden girl

or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers

and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs

but she is not kind.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

“If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.”

Manfred Kyber (1880–1933) German playwright and translator

“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer