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
  Chatterton, ch.5.

   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
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

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

-Anonymous
c.1925  The origin of this line is disputed; it has been attributed to Billy Wilder, Charles Butterworth,  Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley's press agent. It was used by Mae West in Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film) and by Benchley in The Major and the Minor (1942 film).

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

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings1:1.

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)
St Mark 5:30.

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

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 7:57^8.

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

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Rates of Exchange, pt.4, ch.3.

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

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Great Lover'.

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

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

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

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.8.

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

-Carter, Angela Olive
  'Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style', in New Society (1967). Collected in Nothing Sacred (1982).

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 Long Good-Bye, ch.4.

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
  Claudine et  Annie, ch.3 (translated by Antonia White).

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

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  House of Commons speech, 28 Feb, attacking Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel for bullying his back-benchers into supporting the Government's action in intercepting the private mail of radical MPs.

Good clothes open all doors.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.1705.

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
Of Harry S  Truman. Quoted in David McCullough Truman (1992).

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

-Harrington, Michael
  The Other America: Poverty in the United States, ch.1.

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
  Capricornia,'Psychological Effect of a Solar Topee'.

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

-Herrick, Robert
  'Upon  Julia's Clothes'.

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
  'Delight in Disorder'.