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  • I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

    Regret   Men   Thinking  
  • The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

    Gay   News   Brogues  
  • People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

  • HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

    Love   Happiness   Peace  
  • What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

    Degrees   Bulls   Mouths  
    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons”, p.148
  • I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

    Red   Brogues   Bigs  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

    Shoes   Sick   England  
    "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
  • At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

    Boys   Thinking   Years  
  • Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

    Play   Brogues   Accents  
    "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.
  • Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure.

    Source: runningmagazine.ca
  • I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.

    Flower   People   Dresses  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

    Morning   Rain   Dark  
    Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.8, Modern Library
  • Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

    Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.126, Macmillan
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