84 Bow Tie Quotes

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Famous Bow Tie Quotes

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. - Rick Kaplan

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie. — Dhani Jones

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them. — Tucker Carlson

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art. — Harry Anderson

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - Ben Jonson

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. — Ben Jonson

Neckties strangle clear thinking. — Lin Yutang

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon

A turtleneck is about sophistication. — Dwyane Wade

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. — Marilyn vos Savant

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know? — Noah Emmerich

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog. — Bob Parsons

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. - Rodney Dangerfield

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. — Rodney Dangerfield

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody. - Dean Martin

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody. — Dean Martin

There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer. — Robin Williams

Short Bow Tie Quotes

  • My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! — Anne Baxter
  • I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. — Serena Williams
  • A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit. — Michael Kors
  • Pearls are always appropriate. — Jackie Kennedy
  • Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. — Charles Dickens
  • To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste. — Gene Wilder
  • Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger
  • If youre wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. — Matt Bomer
  • I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big. — Charlie Sheen
  • The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart. — Oscar de la Renta

Bow Tie Image Quotes

Bow tie quote A King only bows down to his Queen.
A King only bows down to his Queen.

Suit And Tie Quotes

I'm not a suit and tie kind of guy. I wear a suit once a year, for the Hall of Fame, or if I have to go to a funeral or something. It's just not me. — CM Punk

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie. — Pierre Cardin

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck. — Alexander Wang

Bow tie quote When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope, When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap That's cleaner than a bar of soap! And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight, Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight. — GZA

I lived in Chicago, in a shady part of town, and the cops would always stop me since I'm Mexican and I look like the other dudes. Style played a part in it. You're not really going to dress in a suit in a tie. — Michael Pena

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise — Bob Dylan

Bow tie quote Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.

Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up. — Robert De Niro

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy. — Dom DeLuise

In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool. — Paul Weller

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. — Drew Carey

Suits And Ties Quotes

I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie. — Dave Barry

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go. — Sam Raimi

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster. — Ryan Lochte

Bow tie quote If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

I've always loved wearing a suit. When you have on a crisp shirt and a tie you always feel like you're going somewhere. It feels like a bit of an occasion. — Jamie Redknapp

Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy. — Kevin Durant

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie. — David Mamet

Bow tie quote Life isnt tied with a bow, but still it's a gift
Life isnt tied with a bow, but still it's a gift

I hate wearing suits and ties. — Rob Delaney

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower. — Bob Hope

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable. — Tom Ford

The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart. — Boris Becker

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More Bow Tie Quotes

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. — Pete Fountain

Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that. — Paula Deen

I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out. — Dhani Jones

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection." — David Sedaris

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool. — Steven Moffat

Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business. — Dana Gould

Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool. — Matt Smith

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. — Dhani Jones

You can't dribble on bow ties. — Dr. Seuss

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar. — Sergio Leone

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. — Mika

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others. — Dhani Jones

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants. — Justin Townes Earle

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing. — Frank Zappa

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties. — Justin Timberlake

The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers. — Mikhail Bulgakov

For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is a mistake-there is no other word. Where else can the restless human mind find means to tie the infinite in a finite bow? — David Berlinski

When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of combat boots and jeans and a beat-up T-shirt. I think of it as a uniform: Ya know, if you're a Maytag man, you put on your bow tie. I still have T-shirts from when I was that age. — Justin Theroux

Things don't always tie up in a nice bow. Even when you make strides with people and relationships, it's complicated. — Aaron Tveit

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. — Regina Brett

Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left. — Matt Smith

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can. — Lord Northcliffe

With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. — Hugh Hefner

In the shows I've done serialized storytelling with, there are big open questions, but you like every episode to be identifiable as what it is. It's also very important that each season is identifiable. There's usually some big thing that you're trying to wrap up. There are big bows that you're trying to tie, by the end of the season, that you would do anyway because it's just good storytelling to tie those things up. — Tim Kring

I don't tie my shoes right. I tie them the way you would tie a gift, like a bow. — Hari Kondabolu

When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress. — Hillary Clinton

You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?" — Iman Shumpert

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered. — Feist

Everybody knew that you should never provoke a rattlesnake, much less tie it into a bow. But that didn't stop Judd. What did stop him was the rattlesnake. — Demetri Martin

And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package, but then it's not your birthday that I know of so I'm under no obligation to give you a gift. — Orson Scott Card

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more. — Mike Mills

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it. — Terry Gilliam

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything. — Theophilus London

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. — Mario Batali

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd. — Dhani Jones

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