Good clothes open all doors. [ Proverb ]
God sends cold after clothes. [ Proverb ]
Foppery is the egotism of clothes. [ Victor Hugo ]
The butcher in his killing clothes. [ Walt Whitman ]
God sends cold according to clothes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The soul of this man is in his clothes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Truth hath a good face, but ill clothes. [ Proverb ]
Clothes form the intellect of the dandy. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Fine clothes wear soonest out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
No fine clothes can hide the fool or clown. [ Proverb ]
Fine clothes oftentimes hide a base descent. [ Proverb ]
Critics are like brushes of noblemen's clothes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. [ Emerson ]
Ever since we wear clothes we know not one another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]
All Americans dress well - they get their clothes in Paris. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Apes are never more beasts, than when they wear men's clothes. [ Proverb ]
More goes to the making of a fine gentleman than fine clothes. [ Proverb ]
Politeness has left our manners, to take refuge in our clothes. [ Mme. de Bassanville ]
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit. [ Ben Jonson ]
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. [ Proverb ]
Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. [ Dickens ]
What makes the breaking of all oaths a holy duty? - food and clothes. [ Butler ]
His clothes are worth a hundred pounds, but his wit is dear of a groat. [ Proverb ]
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. [ Carlyle ]
To be proud of an hereditary title, is to rant it in a dead man's clothes. [ Proverb ]
Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. [ Jean Paul ]
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. [ Sterling ]
He that is proud of his fine clothes, fetches his reputation from his tailor. [ Proverb ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. [ William Shakespeare ]
Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on. [ Locke ]
There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. [ George Herbert ]
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year." Press a stick and it seems a youth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a, devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. [ Joubert ]
Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. [ Suckling ]
Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. [ Thomas Fuller ]
It is as natural for women to pride themselves in fine clothes, as it is for a peacock to spread his tail. [ Proverb ]
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. [ Carlyle ]
The seat of pride is in the heart, and only there; and if it be not there, it is neither in the look nor in the clothes. [ Clarendon ]
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social - I mean a purse? [ Carlyle ]
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be. [ Sir Matthew Hale ]
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. [ Shenstone ]
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. [ Carlyle ]
To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters; for, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies. [ G. A. Sala ]
As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]
No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost.
Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.
[ John Flavel ]