She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. – Louisa May Alcott
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. – Charles Baudelaire
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different. – Charles Dudley Warner
Never concentrating so hard than when manoeuvring a full cup of tea whilst lying down. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
