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I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864. -- Margot Asquith
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. -- Andrew Cuomo
Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States. -- L. Neil Smith
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. -- Hermione Gingold
I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look. -- Milla Jovovich
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes. -- J. Anthony Lukas
To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off. -- Dwyane Wade
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants. -- Woody Allen
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. -- Alan Bennett
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. -- Peter De Vries
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something. -- Stephen Fry
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. -- Evelyn Waugh
You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses. -- Rachel Zoe
Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit. -- Johnny Weir
The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled. -- Kevin Hart
I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed. -- Kathy Lette
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school. -- Charles Frazier
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco. -- Russell Lynes
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader. -- John Updike
William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him. -- H.W. Brands
I remember the feeling of a tweed Chanel jacket because my mom used to wear one to work. -- Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy -- Peter De Vries
My six favorite textures for fall and winter are leather, fur, tweed, mohair, velvet and wool. I love that they are all as warm as they are fashionable and easy to incorporate into your wardrobe. -- Nina Garcia

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