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“See where she comes, apparelled like the spring,
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
Of every virtue gives renown to men!”
Apparel Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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“So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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“And now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father's house
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;
With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.”
Apparel Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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“He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will
smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her
disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it
cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at II, v)
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“I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God
reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge,
and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.”
Cleanliness Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at V, iv)
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“The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!”
Fashion Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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“You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like
the fashion of your garments.”
Fashion Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, vi)
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“Death my lord,
Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't
That sure th' have worn out Christendom.”
Fashion Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at I, iii)
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“All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel
than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion
too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of
the fashion?”
Fashion Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Conrade at III, iii)
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“I'll be at charges for a looking-glass
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favor with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.”
Fashion Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will
drive them to acquire any custom.”
Fashion Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick
in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we
were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves,
thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary
influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition on the charge of a star.”
Foppery Quotes Source: King Lear (Edmund at I, ii)
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“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes
with the next block.”
Hatters Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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“I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.”
Hatters Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at I, i)
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“I see, the jewel best enamelled
Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still
That others touch, and often touching will
Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.”
Jewels Quotes Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at II, i)
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“'Tis plate of rare device and jewels
Of rich and exquisite form, their values great,
And I am something curious, being strange,
To have them in sale stowage.”
Jewels Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at I, vi)
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“Take that life, beseech you,
Which I so often owe; but your ring first,
And here the bracelet of the truest princess
That ever swore her faith.”
Jewels Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at V, v)
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“A woman that is like a German clock,
Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watched that it may still go right!”
Jewels Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at III, i)
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“(Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.”
Tailors Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Cloten & Guiderius at IV, ii)
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“(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man?
(Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not
have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th'
trade.”
Tailors Quotes Source: King Lear (Cornwall & Kent at II, ii)
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“Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't.
O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?
What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.
What, up and down carved like an apple tart?
Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,
Like to a censer in a barber's shop.
Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?”
Tailors Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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“Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But with a crafty madness keeps aloof
When we would bring him on to some confession
Of his true state.”
Confession Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Guildenstern at III, i)
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“Confess yourself to heaven,
Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.”
Confession Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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“Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;
For to deny each article with oath
Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception
That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.”
Confession Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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“A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Before a sleeping giant.”
Consideration Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Agamemnon at II, iii)
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