Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.


William Hazlitt

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
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I wanted those who can't afford a brand new dress for prom to still be able to go in a beautiful dre...
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Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than y...
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A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.
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Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the c...
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Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
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Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
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We're treating it like part of our dress code,
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity dai...
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Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will t...
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the ave...
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The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. ...
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This is more disturbing than a woman with short hair wearing a dress.
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You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
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I personally think behavior and dress align themselves.
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We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
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No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as ...
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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindlin...
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi...
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He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ...
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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its i...
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, brin...
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There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and...
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Obviously, they've got to remake themselves; obviously, they've got to make themselves relevant in a...
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I personally feel appropriate dress and appropriate behavior align themselves.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape f...
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape...
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Love is something far more than desire or sexual intercourse. It is the principal means of escape fr...
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Those who don’t value their own words are not capable of valuing yours.
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Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress...
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
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Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
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Those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lo...
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God will abundantly bless those who make the needs of the kingdom their priority
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The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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You can always give your testimony of how you came to know Jesus. Certainly no one can argue with yo...
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Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they...
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are heal...
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
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You will never catch me in a dress without a pair of Spanx and a bra.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT
A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
WILLIAM HAZLITT