clothes

Thus did they live:Thus did they love, Repeating only joys above; And Angels were, but with clothes on, Which they would put off cheerfully, To bathe them in the galaxy, Then gird them with the Heavenly zone.

—Lovelace, Richard

Quandelle le' v esespaupie' r es,ondiraitqu'ellesede¤ s habille. When she raises her eyelids it's as if she weretaking off all her clothes.

—Colette full name Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

—Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones

Their whole business abroad (as far as I can perceive)

—Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint

Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.

—Herbert, Xavier

The fact that you don't buy a teenager new clothes doesn't mean he isn't going to grow.

—White, George Malcolm

Bright grayness.Both the clothes and hair were neat and gray. The gray-framed spectacles magnified the gray hazel eyes, but there was no grayness in the mind.

—Gunther,John

Clothes are our weapons, our challenges, our visible insults.

—Carter, Angela Olive

So fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

—Schmitt,Wolfgang Rudolph

Clothes make the poor invisible too: America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

—Harrington, Michael

A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!

—Nation, CarryAmelia ne¤  e Moore

   She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

—Alcott, Louisa May

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack.

—Moore, Clement

   Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

—Bible (Old Testament)

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

—Lauren, Ralph

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.'

—Carlyle,Thomas

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Good clothes open all doors.

—Fuller,Thomas

   The benison of hot water; furs to touch; The good smell of old clothes.

—Brooke, Rupert Chawner

It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours.With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians. For too long has Italy beena dealer insecond-hand clothes.Wemean to free her from the numberless museums that cover her like so many graveyards. 550

—Marinetti, Emilio FilippoTomasso

A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction† A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.

—Herrick, Robert

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

—Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)

When as in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (me thinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes.

—Herrick, Robert

Art may make a suit of clothes; But nature must produce a man.

—Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von

And the smell of the library was always the sameöthe musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.

—Ackroyd, Peter

She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

   Friends! trust not the heart of that man for whom Old Clothes are not venerable.

—Carlyle,Thomas

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

There was a young belle of old Natchez Whose garments were always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.

—Nash, (Frederic) Ogden

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

—Anonymous

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

—Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley

The Right Honwas atubby little chapwho looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!'

—Plum

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

—Thoreau, Henry David

Alcohol islike love† The first kissismagic, thesecond is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

—Chandler, Raymond

The things people had once held against her† unconventional beauty†un-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodöwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.

—Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr

A fashionable woman wears clothes; the clothes don't wear her.

—Quant, Mary

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

—Midler, Bette

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

   I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoiled in the making. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork; and, for the fashion, I believe they were made in the days of Queen Bess.

—Swift,Jonathan

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said,Who touched my clothes?

—Bible (NewTestament)

And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

—Bible (NewTestament)

My parents kept me from children who were rough Whothrew wordslikestones and who woretornclothes

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold