Every true man's apparel fits your thief. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not apparel. [ Justin ]
God makes, and apparel shapes, but it is money that finishes the man. [ Proverb ]
Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin. [ Beecher ]
He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation. [ Feltham ]
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. [ Dickens ]
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked one. [ William Penn ]
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 ]
Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. [ Ben Jonson ]
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. [ Hume ]
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]
It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament.
It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot.
[ J. Beaumont ]