Edwin Hardy Amies quotes

Edwin Hardy Amies quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.”
-- Edwin Hardy Amies

#Country Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”
“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”
“People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.”
“It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.”
“Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.”
“What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?”
“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.”
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2016). “Keeping On Keeping On”, p.296, Profile Books
“When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.”
“If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”

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