Attire Quotes

• Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

  William Penn

  Ignorance, Humility, Pride

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.147

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• Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

  Charles Sumner

  Kings, Queens, Children

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• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Men, Literature

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 1 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.8, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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• But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Suits

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• Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Sports, Nurse

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

  John Phillips

  Sweet, Harvest

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• Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Earth, Witch

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• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

  Geoffrey Perret

  Beach, War, Men

  Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster

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• People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Sunday, Clothes, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1720, Random House

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• In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
  In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
  In halls, in gay attire is seen;
  In hamlets, dances on the green.
  Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
  And men below, and saints above;
  For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Peace

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

  Mary Quant

  Fashion, Women, Clothes

  Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Icons, Clothes

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Rainbow, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014

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• Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Feelings, Intimate, Thoughts And Feelings

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

  Chris Brown

  Men, Self, Inward

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• Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

  Anuj

  Heart, Character, Balance

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• To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

  Democritus

  Women, Littles, Speak

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• The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

  Heinrich Heine

  Thinking, Light, Blue

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

  William Penn

  Shining, Soul, Doe

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time.

  2 Chainz

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. October 2012.

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• To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, People, Excellence

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1829). “The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index”, p.388

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• A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Girl, Book, Boys

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Clothes, Good Movie

  Twitter post from Jan 8, 2013

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• Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

  Giorgio Armani

  Modern Life, Modern, Flexible

  Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

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