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“A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.”
Robert Herrick Quotes 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.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Delight in Disorder
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“It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives.”
Thomas Hood Quotes 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.”
Lord Howard "Ned" Howard Quotes 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.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes 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.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes 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.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Epicaene; or, The Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1, song)
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“Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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.”
John Keats Quotes Source: Epigrams--Clothes
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“Neat, not gaudy.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes 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.”
Henry S. Leigh Quotes 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.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Fireside Travels
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“Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes Source: Euphues (p. 39), (1759 edition)
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“In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes 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.”
Old Song Quotes 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.”
Old Song Quotes 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.”
Thomas Percy Quotes 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.”
John Philips Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare 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.”
William Shakespeare 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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