Suit Quotes

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. (Truman Capote)
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. View quote
David Hume
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. View quote
Penelope Lively
The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs. View quote
Kate Millett
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well. (Lu Xun)
I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit. View quote
Keanu Reeves
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. View quote
Walter Scott
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. View quote
Nina Garcia
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. View quote
Reza Aslan
Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt. View quote
Tamara Mellon
I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag? View quote
Colin Greenwood
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. View quote
David Antin
I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job. (Doug Stanhope)
When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. View quote
Lucian Freud
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing way at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
As a young child Audrey Carsons wanted to be writers because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. View quote
William S. Burroughs
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