#garment

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak? ↗

— Alexandra Ivy

#power #submission #undergarments #women #lust

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. ↗

— Felix Adler

#bake #because #bread #build #done

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#garment #god #grasp #hears #hem

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#bathing #caught #clothes #conservative #enjoyment

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earliest #eat #garment #greet #invisible

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#clings #garment #government #must #people

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cut #garment #heart #intellect #speaks

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#festive #freedom #garment #good #home