Thegloryof God isman, and thegloryof manishisdress.

-Anonymous
c.450  Babylonian Talmud. Quoted in Barton Stevenson (ed)  The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases (1948).

For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

You must understand that this is not a woman's dress I'm wearing. It's a man's dress.

-Bowie, David real name David Robert Jones
Quoted in Maxim  Jakubowski The Wit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll (1983).

The difference inthis case between a manof senseand a fop, is, thatthefopvalueshimself uponhis dress; theman of sense laughs at it, at the same time that he knows he must not neglect it.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son,19 Nov.

There isno suchthing as a moral dress† It's people who are moral or immoral.

-Churchill,Jeanette ne¤  e Jeanette Jerome
  'That Moral Dress', in the Daily Chronicle,16 Feb.

Ce n'est gue'  re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente"  tement une foi entie'  re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re¤  clament des te¤  moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

-de Beauvoir, Simone
  Le Deuxie' m e Sexe (The Second Sex), bk.2, pt.5, ch.18 (translated by H M Parshley,1952).

Wasthere ever sucha sunnystreet asthis Broadway! The pavement stones are polished with thetread of feet until they shine again† Heaven save the ladies, how they dress! We have seen more colours in these ten minutes, than we should have seen elsewhere, in as many days. What various parasols! what rainbow silks and satins! what pinking of thin stockings and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings!

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  American Notes.

Youmust dressaccording toyourage, yourpursuits, your object in life.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Endymion, ch.23.

'I know of no joy,'she airily began,'greater than a cool white dress after the sweetness of confession.'

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  Valmouth, ch.4.

Fond Pride of Dress is sure an Empty Curse; E'er Fancy you consult, consult your Purse.

-Franklin, Benjamin
Poor Richard Improved, May.

Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe,'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?'And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent,'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'

-Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn ne¤  e Stevenson
^3  Of the Cranford ladies. Cranford, ch.1.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

-Hazlitt,William
  Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

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'.

Dress is a form of visual art, a creation of images with the visible self as its medium.

-Hollander, Anne
  Seeing Through Clothes, ch.5.

Her crocus dress she wore, lowcut, belongings on show.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses.

Are simple women only fit To dress, to darn, to flower or knit, To mind the distaff, or the spit? Why are the needle and the pen Thought incompatible by men? 507

-Lewis, Esther married name  Clark
  'A Mirror for Detractors', l.146^50.

The car has becomeanarticle ofdresswithout whichwe feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall
  Understanding Media, ch.22.

The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.

-Mandeville, Bernard
  The Fable of the Bees, or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (2nd edn.).

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  'How'sYour Sacro-iliac?', in the Saturday Evening Post, 14 Oct.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.

-Paine,Thomas
  Common Sense, ch.1.