Clothes Quotes - Page 2

• It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fog, Class

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books

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• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Confusion

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Fashion, Deep Life, Transcendentalism

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Made

  1957 In Life, 19 Aug.

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• I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

  Gilda Radner

  Funny, Cute, Women

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• Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Fashion, Giving, Feelings

  "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Vices, Mishaps, Stains

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• She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Women, Jeeves, Moral

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Patience, Vex, Patient

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

  George Washington

  Fashion, Men, Bird

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.15, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Years, Lines, Lasts

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• I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Character, Ideas, Moments

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

  Don Rickles

  Funny, Wonder, Picks

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• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  Samuel Butler

  Mind, Body, Want

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Wedding, Women

  'The Spectator' no. 475, 4 September 1712

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• I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

  Josephine Baker

  Witty, Naked

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• I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

  David Beckham

  Nice, Nice Clothes

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• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Dresses, Clothings

  1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

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• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Apparel

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.361

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• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Positive, Work, Adversity

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• The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Ignorance, Age

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Giving, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Designer Clothes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Patience, Hurt

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Good Night, Worry

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