WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 22 May 2026 15:07:08 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg lingerie – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Stross, Charles -- The Apocalypse Codex (2012) https://wist.info/stross-charles/36428/ https://wist.info/stross-charles/36428/#respond Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:02:40 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36428 Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.


Charles "Charlie" Stross (b. 1964) British writer
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

See Arthur C. Clarke. ]]> https://wist.info/stross-charles/36428/feed/ 0 36428 Parker, Dorothy -- Caption, Vogue (1916) https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/33979/ https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/33979/#respond Fri, 27 May 2016 19:46:31 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33979 Brevity is the soul of lingerie.


Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) American writer, poet, wit
Caption, Vogue (1916)

Quoted and attributed in Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns (1934). Modeled after Shakespeare. The full caption, from a page of women's underwear: "From these foundations of the autumn wardrobe, one may learn that brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise." ]]> https://wist.info/parker-dorothy/33979/feed/ 0 33979