Subject: Appearance (Page 23)

Women’s styles may change, but their designs remain the same.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author

Maternity sweater, $52. Comes in unisex sizes.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.

(1916 – 2000) American lawyer & activist

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.


Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

(1949 – ) American stand-up comedian

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde—dyed by her own hand.

(1915 – 2005) Canadian writer

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

Probably the worst thing you can hear when you’re wearing a bikini is “Good for you!”


I haven’t seen this many white people in tuxedos since the Titanic.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

She has breasts of granite and a mind like a Gruyere cheese.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

‘Mature’ means old, ‘athletic’ means flat chested and ‘not model thin’ means circus fat.

(1961 – ) American actress

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

There has ceased to be a difference between my awake clothes and my asleep clothes.

(1979 – ) American actress, comedian & writer

David Cameron says he’ll put a cap on immigrants coming into the UK… that’s wrong… immigrants should be allowed to wear what they like.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

That’s where Jack and I were different, he would let his hair down, I just took mine off.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Joan Collins told a reporter that she hasn’t had plastic surgery; come on… she’s had more tucks than a motel bedsheet!

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

She’s like an apple turnover that got crushed in a grocery bag on a hot day.

(1947 – ) American author, teacher & social critic

Chanel No. 5

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol