| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert G Greene | 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. |
| Ben Jonson | 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 | Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. |
| Bible | 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. |
| Bible | A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. |
| Douglas Jerrold | After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. |
| Edward Young | How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin. |
| Edward Young | Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. |
| James O Halliwell | 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. |
| James Russell Lowell | 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 Thomson | O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace. |
| James Thomson | Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd the most. |
| James Thomson | Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
| John Keats | 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 Milton | In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. |
| John Philips | My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdues An horrid chasm disclosed. |
| John Tobin | She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in! |
| Jonathan Swift | She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagundex | Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. |
| Ludovico Ariosto | Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. |
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