I have a hat.  It is graceful and feminine and gives me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it,

 instead of carrying it.

Erma Bombeck

Every woman looks well in anything if you give her shadows enough. Beware of a brimless hat unless you are a great beauty, because it does not cast any shadows. Instead, it throws your complexion into relentless high ‘relief’ that is not flattering.

Belle Armstrong Whitney

What to Wear (1916)

One must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears

to one’s best advantage. 

Coco Chanel

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Bella Abzug

Take your hat off to the past, take your coat off to the future.

Anonymous

Tying her bonnet under her chin,

She tied her raven ringlets in;

But not alone in the silken snare

Did she catch her lovely floating hair,

For, tying her bonnet under her chin,

She tied a young man’s heart within.

From The Love-Knot

Nora Perry (1832-1896)