A Quote by Jean Cocteau

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau
French - Novelist
July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Beyonce Knowles

I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

Valerie Trierweiler

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Fran Lebowitz

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.

Winona Ryder

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

Melanie Scrofano

The town of GUILDFORD, which (taken with its environs) I, who have seen so many, many towns, think the prettiest, and, taken all together, the most agreeable and most happy-looking, that I ever saw in my life.

William Cobbett

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

Nanette Lepore

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

Alexander Pope

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

Ashley Jensen

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Owen Hart

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

Czeslaw Milosz

All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.

Jennifer Estep

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!

Tim Berners-Lee

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