Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
It came as something of a shock that Nanny Butler was wearing trousers.
“Wouldn’t a black dress, with a nice, frilly apron be better?” suggested Mrs Dearly – rather nervously, because Nanny Butler had never been her Nanny.
“You can’t be a butler without trousers,” said Nanny Butler firmly. “But I’ll get a frilly apron tomorrow. It will add a note of originality.” It did.
Dodie Smith, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
Ellen DeGeneres
Then a thought came back to her which made the color rise in her cheek and a spark light itself in her eyes. She straightened her thin little body and lifted her head.
“Whatever comes,” she said, “cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”