Tom Ford Quotes

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

There was a time that I would have carried a briefcase and worn a monocle were it to even border on socially acceptable.

A suit is a sign of respect.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

Most of the people interviewing me are far more square than me. I think it's the ET thing. I'm sitting there, my hair is combed, and I'm in a suit.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

I'm not a fan of underdressing, I think it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

I try to dress well. Not just now at Chelsea, but all my career, at my clubs and the national team in Italy, I like to wear a nice suit on the touchline.

As soon as I had the opportunity to wear a suit, I took it, like when I was at sixth form and had to dress smartly, I couldn't wait to get a suit on. I've always loved dressing up.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

I don't feel like you should promote personally that you dress nicely.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!