Quotation Explorer - 'Suit'

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit. - Edna Ferber
Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly. - Patrick deWitt
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man. - David Hume
& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom. - L V HALL
I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth. - Betsy Cook Speer
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others. - Thiruman Archunan
I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected. - Bianca Frazier
Don’t allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn’t suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor. - Colleen Houck
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are willing to sacrifice even the slight cranial capacity with which evolution has equipped us. - Christopher Hitchens
All that glisters is not gold;Often have you heard that told.Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold - Gilded tombs do worms infold;Had you been as wise as bold,Young in limbs, in judgement old,Your answer had not been inscrolled - Fare you well; your suit is cold. - William Skakespeare
Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth. - Andy Beckett
A Beautiful Woman Is A Baggage. Thank God Yours Is A Suit Case - Maurys Gaucho
My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes. - Wanda Lea Brayton
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. - Victor Hugo
Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going. - Lik Hock Yap
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' - Cary Grant
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado
If kindness isn't your strong suit, then you need to change clothes. - Donna Marie Timney
You’re repulsive, Mike.Huh?I said, you’re impulsive. Such a fun, impulsive guy. When Leah looked into her date’s little eyes, she couldn’t help picturing Mavis Fletcher’s prize sow Gertie in a two-thousand-dollar silk suit and a gold Tag Heuer watch. - Pamela Burford, Snowed
A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times. - Marty Rubin
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward. - Marilyn Vos Savant
Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers - Val McDermid
I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents. - Johann Rudolf Wolf
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. - Simone Weil
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. - Jesse Stuart
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit. - Senator Dianne Feinstein
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting
...no pain ever takes full leave of its person. That pain is greedy and doesn't give ground. That a body remembers what hurts it and how. Old pains get swallowed by new pains. But newer pains always follow suit. - Jill Alexander Essbaum
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? - Arlo Guthrie
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Failure is not an end-point, but amendment to suit your success - Binye Vincent
Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone! - Kemi Sogunle
Happiness is your responsibility, don’t saddle someone else with it, don’t postpone it until conditions suit your needs, and don’t surrender it when you notice something you don’t approve of. - D.S. Luca
Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit. - Anthony Liccione
To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In a world of twelve-years-olds in sexy boots and nans in sparkly mini-dresses, the surest way to tell the prostitute walking into a hotel at Heathrow is to look for the lady in the designer suit. - Belle de Jour
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. - Kin Hubbard
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. - William Shakespeare
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. - Katharine Hepburn
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. - Reza Aslan
And there comes a time that what is happening does not suit you anymore...You flip a coin, light a match and throw it behind your back and let everything purify in ashes while you are moving forward.There is no reason to be afraid of the new, the old has power no more - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. - Susan Rice
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C.S. Lewis
Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics. - Neel Burton
To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit; and (3) a few psychology books. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
[L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others. - John Wiswell
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