“ True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.2K
“ They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.5K
“ She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 389
“ God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 3.8K
“ No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 286
“ Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine. ”
- Wes Smith- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: "Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?". ”
- Katharine Hamnett- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing. ”
- Frank Burns- Copy
- 711
“ When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
- 494
“ I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 142
“ H Stern was one of the first people to let me borrow their diamonds to wear to an awards show. At the Emmys last year, when I was such a has-been, no one would give me a dress. ”
- Teri Hatcher- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. ”
- Shania Twain- Copy
- 864
“ People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more. ”
- Margaret Collier Graham- Copy
- 888
“ Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. ”
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison- Copy
- 869
“ Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that? ”
- Nikolai Gogol- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd the most. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 393
“ I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.1K
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