Quotes
Quotes about Dress
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honour without deserving,
To other some, deserving without honour.
He was indeed the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer.... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
Herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.
In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here."
True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
Note 67.He serves his party best who serves the country best.--Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877.
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
And heightens ease with grace.
Where gripinge grefes the hart wounde,
And dolefulle dumps the mynde oppresse,
There music with her silver sound
With spede is wont to send redresse.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;
Like other charmers, wooing the caress
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar!
A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.
Give me to live with Love alone
And let the world go dine and dress;
For Love hath lowly haunts....
If life's a flower, I choose my own--
'T is "love in Idleness."
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in the eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing--yes,--
I'm growing old!
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
Love must kiss that mortal's eyes
Who hopes to see fair Arcady.
No gold can buy you entrance there;
But beggared Love may go all bare--
No wisdom won with weariness;
But Love goes in with Folly's dress--
No fame that wit could ever win;
But only Love may lead Love in.
