(268 quotes found)
“I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.”
Robert Heinlein
“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”
Cyril Connolly
“These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.”
William Congreve
“Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article”
Philip Armour
“Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.”
Ian Anderson
“HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.”
H Ross Perot
“The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.”
Marshall McLuhan
“One's right to express oneself is a basic freedom.”
Ingram Bondin