Quotes about wear
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“Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Books

“Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.”

Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold

Source: Blood of the Fold

Understanding

“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Love, People, Search

“There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear
That which disfigures it.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Heart

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40 The Martyr
Context: The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Way, Night, Hope, Good Night

“I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Stupidity

“You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense."
-Percy”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Life

“Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day?
Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.
Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

People, Clothes

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”

Leo Rosten (1908–1997) American writer

Life

“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

Color, Nature, Holiday

“I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Ever

God, Shoe

“It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Time, Personality

“China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. "Because I'm a skeleton" he explained.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Age

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”

Don DeLillo Underworld

Source: Underworld

Love

“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I’d found out long ago that I couldn’t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Outlaw Demon Wails

Madness

“Persistence wears down resistance.”

William J. Federer (1957) American historian

Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“There are certain outfits you have that make you feel good every time you wear them, and then there are outfits where you wore them too many times in a row because you liked them so much, and now they just feel like garbage.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Time

“She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Source: Carry on, Jeeves

Season

“In the world we live in, what weand what weare like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

World

“What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."

That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Waiting

“He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

World, Time

“The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Flowers

“Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: Cloaked

People, Shoe

“One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly… glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

Feeling

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Pain, Beauty, Dreams, Hope

“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

God, Law, Dreams, Future

“I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Color, Sport

“Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. "No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Way, Hell, Dead

“you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Life

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Source: The Holy Terrors

Heart

“Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers?
Mrs. Ling: Could be…. You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.”

Christopher Moore book A Dirty Job

Source: A Dirty Job

“I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

People, World

“Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

Loss

“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

Children, School

“This is a formal affair. Kali is wearing twelve skulls.”
Nïx’s eyes went wide. “I should’ve vajazzled!”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Skye

“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Love

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Women, Hope, Girl

“I'd wear his corsage to an orgy, any day!”

Kresley Cole book No Rest for the Wicked

Source: No Rest for the Wicked

“it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Beach Trees

Shoe, Mountain

“He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Age, Fashion, Evil

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…”

Susan Polis Schutz (1944) American poet

Flowers, Sun, Dance

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

"Dedicatory Ode", stanza 22
Verses (1910)

Love, Home, Laughter

“He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Sleep

“I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Life, Fate, Imagination

“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Context: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

“And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Deep Green: Color Me Jealous

Happiness, Smile, Heart

“Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers.

'No.'

'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?'

'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Color, Kiss

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“jace's clothes had been clean, stylish, ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive.
Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Evil, Clothes

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Universe, Funny

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Forgetting

“[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.”

Naomi Wolf (1962) American writer

For women

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

Love, Life, World, Clothes

“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Guy

“The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Time

“Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears.
"It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Underworld

Tear

“More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Guy, Girl, Drink

“But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.”

Koren Zailckas (1980) American writer

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Alcohol, Universe

“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

Way, Boy, Hell

“You know the legend. Stab them in the heart and they’ll die. (Ravyn)
Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Heart

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

Way

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Anita's musings on knives; unidentified edition, pp. 304-305
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't met a trophy wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Way, Thinking, Heart

“I think you'll just have to wait for that Loser of the Month tiara a little while longer while I wear it, with pride, around my neighborhood.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Thinking, Waiting

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Death

“Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly…" - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

Source: The Complete Persepolis

Law

“Zarek? (Astrid)
What?! (Zarek)
Don’t use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I’ll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

People, Housing

“Sometimes I didn't even feel like getting out of bed. I took to wearing my days-of-the-week panties out of order. It could be Monday and I'd have on underwear saying Thursday. I just didn't care.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Feeling

“Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein in a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in "Einstein in no-sock shock" http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9555&feedId=online-news_rss20, New Scientist (15 July 2006) <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications