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“'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Elder Brother (act V)
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“Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act V, sc. 3, l. 170)
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“May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill,
And tailors' lays be longer than their bill!
While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes,
And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 781)
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“Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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“Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.”
John Ford Quotes Source: The Fancies Chaste and Noble (act I, sc. 3)
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“A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,--
True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--
Did fall one day extremely sick by chance
And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.”
Sir John Harrington Quotes Source: Of a Precise Tailor
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“One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had
their business at their fingers' ends.
- William Hazlitt,”
William Hazlitt Quotes Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 93)
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“'Tis not the robe or garment I affect;
For who would marry with a suit of clothes?”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Royal King and Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 2)
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“It takes nine tailors to make a man.
[Fr., Il faut neuf tailleurs pour faire un homme.]”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Royal King and Loyal Subject (act II, sc. 2)
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“What a fine man
Hath your tailor made you!”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: City Madam (act I, sc. 2)
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“As if thou e'er wert angry
But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
Can bring more to the making up of a man,
Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;
And did he not, each morning, new create thee,
Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: Fatal Dowry (act III, sc. 1)
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“Get me some French tailor
To new-create you.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: Renegade (act III, sc. 1)
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“Yes, if they would thank their maker,
And seek no further, but they have new creators,
God tailor and god mercer.”
Philip Massinger Quotes Source: A Very Woman (act III, sc. 1, l. 161)
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“King Stephen was a worthy peere,
His breeches cost him but a crowne;
He held them sixpence all too deere,
Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.”
Thomas Percy Quotes Source: Reliques--Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee (st. 7)
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“Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey;
That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: The Dunciad (bk. II, l. 117)
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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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“(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.”
William Shakespeare 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?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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“All his reverend wit
Lies in his wardrobe.”
John Webster Quotes Source: White Devil (act II, sc 1)
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