Clothes Quotes - Page 27

• Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Want, Gods Will

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Apology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

  Giorgio Armani

  Confidence, Fashion, Philosophy

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• I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Weakness, Buying, Impulsive

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• You can take my cars or my house, just don't mess with my clothes.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Car, House, Mess

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• I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

  Clarence Darrow

  Sleep, Differences, Pay

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• A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  "Reflections on Various Subjects". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, www.gutenberg.org. 1678.

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• Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Coats, Next

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• Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.

  Josh Billings

  Form, Intellect, Dandy

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• Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Soul, Excellence, Faces

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• Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Selfish, Home

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
  . . . .
  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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• Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Here I Am, Law, Practice

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Dirty

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• Modeling is about illusion. It's a fantasy world where models play various roles. By featuring extreme looks, magazines show women how to have fun with makeup and clothes, and to inspire them to experiment - just like we did when we were little girls.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, Fun, Makeup

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• [On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Suffering, Sorrow, Want

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• Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Years, Twenties, Messages

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• Want me to sell my soul, just so I can go gold. You can have the cars, clothes the jewerlies, the houses and hos. Cats do anything for a little bit of fame and a little bit of change. Industry snakes, they ain't friendly. Thought she loved me, she just tricked me.

  Bow Wow

  Cat, Snakes, Car

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• Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Kings, Gold

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• If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

  Jack Canfield

  Letting Go, Mean, Past

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 12, 2012

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• My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.

  Hattie Carnegie

  Moving, Simple, Littles

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• Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

  Perry Brass

  Life, Men, He Man

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.27, Perry Brass

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• I like guys who wear nice clothes, nice jeans, nice trainers - I hate skinny jeans and those T-shirts that are really low-cut.

  Georgia Salpa

  Hate, Nice, Cutting

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• If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape,
  you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

  Edith Head

  Use, Shapes, Littles

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  Edith Head

  Actors, Motto, Should

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