Corsets Quotes

Enjoy the best quotes on Corsets , Explore, save & share top quotes on Corsets .

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Mary Jo Putney
Save QuoteView Quote

Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.

Gail Carriger, Heartless
Save QuoteView Quote

The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.

Jennifer Vanderbes, Strangers at the Feast
Save QuoteView Quote

Cowboy Rodeo was a very simple man. He liked his life simple. He liked his ranch full of animals, he liked the breeze across the plains, and he liked when the sun rose and set. He liked strong, cold whiskey and the stars at night.Cowboy Rodeo realized at that moment he also really, really liked corsets and black pencil skirts that showed off the curve of the hip.

Shannon Noelle Long, Second Coming
Save QuoteView Quote

I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!”I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!

Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl
Save QuoteView Quote

She first peered into its fascinating cases of beetles and butterflies at the age of six, in the company of her father. She recalls her pity at each occupant pinned for display. It was no great leap to draw the same conclusion of ladies: similarly bound and trussed, pinned and contained, with the objective of being admired, in all their gaudy beauty.

Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
Save QuoteView Quote