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How to use the word Dress in a Sentence? Page #11

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I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

– Bette Midler

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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

– Alison Lurie

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

– George Bernard Shaw

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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

– George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1

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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

– Coco Chanel

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

– Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

– George Bernard Shaw

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Garth Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny

– Wayne's World

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For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

– William Blake

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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

– Whitney Moore, Jr.

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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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Language is the dress of thought.

– Samuel Johnson

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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it

– Albert Einstein

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I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)

– Lizzy Gardiner

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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

– Barbara Garrison

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

– Franoise Sagan

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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress.

– Unknown

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

– Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

– Lady Duff-Gordon

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If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.

– Robert Pante

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