Clothes Quotes

Women’s clothes are painting and men’s clothes are sculpture.

No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.

The newest prisoner’s crime was a mere remark which he had made. He said he believed that men were about all alike, and one man as good as another, barring clothes. He said he believed that if you were to strip the nation naked and send a stranger through the crowd, he couldn’t tell the […]

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.

To a man all things are possible but one – he cannot have a hole in the seat of his breeches and keep his fingers out of it. A man does seem to feel more distress and more persistent and distracting solicitude about such a thing than he could about a sick child that was […]

In London, Wilde came to know the famous of the literary and theatrical world, wrote romantic poetry, and adopted peculiar attire. He would wear knee breeches, a velvet jacket, and black silk stockings, and he would carry a sunflower or a lily in his hand. All this was part of his pose as a dandy, […]

Naked, what am I? A lank, skinny, spider-legged libel on the image of God! Look at the waxwork head – the face, with the expression of a melon – the projecting ears – the knotted elbows – the dished breast – the knife-edged shins – and then the feet, all beads and joints and bone-sprays, […]

I have only one coat. I eat the same food and am dressed in the same tatters as my humble herdsmen.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, But now, God knows, Anything Goes.