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

-Hume, David
^2  Essays Moral, Political and Literary,'The Epicurean'.

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

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 27 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

-Lauren, Ralph
  In the NewYork Times,19  Apr.

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
  Lucasta,'Love Made in the First  Age'.

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
  Manifesto of Futurism.

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

-Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
Attributed.

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

-Midler, Bette
  On relinquishing the mermaid costume she wore in the 1970s film Clams on the Half Shell. In People, 31  Aug.

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

-Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint
English   novelist   and   essayist   of   Irish   parentage.   He   wrote various novels, a collection of essays  and many articles for  the Manchester Guardian (1890^1925).

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
  The Night Before Christmas.

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
  I'm a Stranger Here Myself,'Requiem'.

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
c.1893  Quoted in Carleton Beals Cyclone Carry (1962), ch.14.

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

-Quant, Mary
  Quant by Quant.

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
  OnJacqueline Kennedy's post-election image. AThousand Days.

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
  A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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
  Bob Acres.The Rivals, act 2, sc.1.

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
  EnglishWomen.

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

-Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
  'My Parents Kept Me from ChildrenWhoWere Rough'.

   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
  Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

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

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Economy'.

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
  The House of Mirth, bk.1, ch.1.