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John Lee is dead, that good old man,--
We ne'er shall see him more:
He used to wear an old drab coat
All buttoned down before.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: in Matherne Churchyard, to John Lee's memory, who died May 21, 1823
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
[Lat., Che quant' era piu ornata, era piu brutta.]
Author: Ludovico Ariosto
Source: Orlando Furioso (XX, 116)
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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that
they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that
was on him:
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was
empty, there was no water in it.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XXXVII, v. 23-24)
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A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,
Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XXXVII, v. 23-24)
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To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that
has never a shirt on his back.
Author: Tom Brown
Source: Laconics
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: The Twa Dogs
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And said to myself, as I lit my cigar,
"Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar
Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,
On the whole do you think he would have much to spare
If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"
Author: Samuel Butler (2)
Source: Nothing to Wear
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Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls.
Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,
Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;
All of them different in color and shape.
Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,
Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,
Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.
Author: Samuel Butler (2)
Source: Nothing to Wear
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But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,
And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,
That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
Author: William Allen Butler
Source: Nothing to Wear
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Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square,
Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
And her father assures me each time she was there
That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .
Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping
In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .
And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day
This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,
This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square
The last time we met was in utter despair
Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.
Author: William Allen Butler
Source: Nothing to Wear
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Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (canto II, st. 3)
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Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,
let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy
philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper
were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to
see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Author: Phineas Fletcher
Source: Sicelides (act II, sc. 4)
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He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought
to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States--Apparel
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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Description of an Author's Bedchamber, in "Citizen of the World", Letter 30, "The Author's Club"
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It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Haunch of Venison
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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. IV)
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They were attempting to put on
Raimant from naked bodies won.
Author: Matthew Green
Source: The Spleen
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Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear a long black coat
All button'd down before.
Author: Albert G. Greene
Source: Old Grimes
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Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,--
You'll never see him more;
He used to wear a long brown coat
That buttoned down before.
Author: James O. Halliwell
Source: Nursery Rhymes of England--Tales
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A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Delight in Disorder
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A winning wave, (deserving note.)
In the tempestuous petticote,
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
I see a wilde civility,--
Doe more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Delight in Disorder
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It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Song of the Shirt
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A vest as admired Voltiger had on,
Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,
Obliged to triumph in this legacy.
Author: Lord Howard "Ned" Howard
Source: The British Princes (p. 96), the lines are thought to be a forgery of William Henry Ireland
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than
in any other gown in the world.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: A Wedding-Gown--Jerrold's Wit
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means
of procuring respect.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Epicaene; or, The Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1, song)
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Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Poetaster (act 5, sc. 3)
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Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf;
He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.
O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,
What hides the body oft the mind discovers.
Author: John Keats
Source: Epigrams--Clothes
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Neat, not gaudy.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: in a letter to Wordsworth
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Dwellers in huts and in marble halls--
From Shepherdess up to Queen--
Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls,
And nothing for crinoline.
But now simplicity's not the rage,
And it's funny to think how cold
The dress they wore in the Golden Age
Would seem in the Age of Gold.
Author: Henry S. Leigh
Source: The Two Ages (st. 4)
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Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Fireside Travels
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Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues (p. 39), (1759 edition)
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In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 713)
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Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: Summary of Lord Littelton's Advice
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Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue coat
All buttoned down before.
Author: Old Song
Source: Old Rose (pt. I, ch. II), song referred to in Izaak Walton's "Compleat Angler"
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When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
Author: Old Song
Source: Old Rose (pt. I, ch. II), song referred to in Izaak Walton's "Compleat Angler"
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He was a wight of high renowne,
And thosne but of a low degree;
Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe,
Man, take thine old cloake about thee.
Author: Thomas Percy
Source: Reliques--Take thy Old Cloake about Thee
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My galligaskins, that have long withstood
The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)
An horrid chasm disclosed.
Author: John Philips
Source: The Splendid Shilling (l. 121)
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Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no
kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Lafew at II, v)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten & Guiderius at IV, ii)
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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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!
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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