Quote by Jean Cocteau
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. - Jean Cocteau

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. – Jean Cocteau

Other quotes by Jean Cocteau

Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Poetry
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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. – Jean Cocteau

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People
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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poets job. The rest is literature. – Jean Cocteau

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Ordinary
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Clothing
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Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Clothing

A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. – Elizabeth Wilson

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Clothing

For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. – William Wycherley

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Clothing

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

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Clothing

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Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960s. – Jim Lehrer

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Politics

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life. – Fawn Hall

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Government

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred A. Allen

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Fame