The body is sooner dressed than the soul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Praises are admonitions well dressed out. [ Proverb ]

Expression is the dress of thought, and
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words expressed,
Is like a clown in regal purple dressed. [ Pope ]

New dressed and blooming as a bridal maid. [ Walter Harte ]

When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ugly women, finely dressed, are the uglier for it. [ Proverb ]

A person is well dressed when dressed in good taste. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes. [ Trollope ]

There are well-dressed follies, as there are well-clothed fools. [ Chamfort ]

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. [ Suckling ]

The only way to atone for being occasionally over-dressed is by being always absolutely overeducated. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. [ Addison ]

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

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 tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. [ Emerson ]

Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]

In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but simply arrayed, and we doubt whether any ladies ever excited more admiration. So also the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb forms were gazed on delightedly by men worthy of them, were always very plainly dressed. [ George D. Prentice ]

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]

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 ]