Quotes by Carter, Angela

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves b >>

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about you >>

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, the >>

Quotations about Uniforms

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was si >>

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest c >>

We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uni >>

Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

Carter, Angela