Dandy Quotes

Dandy Quotes by Ogden Nash, William Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, Gail Carriger, Sean Pertwee, Rufus Wainwright and many others.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man–a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object–the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon’s daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we’re going through today is fine and dandy, but it’s really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion.
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.
I work because I enjoy what I’m doing, and the fact that I make money at it – big money – is a fine-and-dandy side fact.
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.
I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride … that’s pretty much what feedback is.
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic – a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.
I didn’t read a lot of comic books. But I was into ‘Dandy and The Beano,’ which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz – pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.
There are people who specialise in lettering, and I’ve had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the ‘Dandy’ the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a ‘Dandy’ reader years and years ago.
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn’t, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic – it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny‘s panties moist.
MC Paul Barman
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn’t – he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere – much more Calvinistic, more neurotic – it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
What is the Dandy?
I’m just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants!
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That’s politics.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
It’s not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century‘s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
But a dandy can never be a vulgar man
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We’ll take turns being on the bottom.