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“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I picked three tiny lion-faced blossoms for my buttonhole and gathered a round dozen for my darling, set their own pale leaves about them for a nosegay, and bound them tight with a bit of aluminium foil from the kitchen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Betty’s gains in dimension on behalf of Macy’s were astounding. From her usual petite feminine figure, she expanded to a height of seventy-two feet, voluptuous vital statistics of thirty-four by twenty-four by thirty-six feet, and a weight of 425 pounds. Betty underwent this major transformation by ingesting a good deal of noxious gas so she could float slowly from upper Manhattan to Macy’s flagship store at Herald Square while millions of fans watched in person or on TV on Thanksgiving Day. It must be noted that Betty had achieved her enormous gain in height, bulk, and weight without sacrificing one ounce of her beauty.”
― Peter Benjaminson, The Life and Times of Betty Boop

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“He stuck it into his button-hole and muttered, as he laid himself down again: "Tom Codlin's the friend.”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“Never a button without a buttonhole.”
― Coco Chanel

“mates, to my sisters and me, are seen mainly as shadows of the people they're involved with. they move. They're visible in direct sunlight. But because they don't have access to our emotional buttons-- because they can't make us twelve again, or five, and screaming-- they don't really count as players.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso