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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter. -- Totie Fields
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. -- Alexander Pope
Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them. -- Geoffrey Hill
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush. -- William Shakespeare
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace. -- Langston Hughes
The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. -- Annabelle Wallis
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer. -- Marissa Mayer
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -- John Steinbeck
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester. -- Beatrix Potter
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him. -- Jeff Greenfield
The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job. -- Alan Lewis
If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow. -- Robert Penn Warren
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts. -- Anne Bradstreet
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I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills -- Novala Takemoto
I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. -- Elle Fanning
I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around. -- Giambattista Valli

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