Mark Twain Quotes About Fashion

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

• Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Inspiration, Men

  Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

• We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Fashion, Travel

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

• Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

• Modesty died when clothes were born.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

• Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

  Mark Twain

  God, Fashion, Leaving

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.95, Xist Publishing

• ...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Silly, Names

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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