Clothes Quotes and Sayings

A pretty face and fine clothes do not make character.
Proverb

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beech

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
Robert Herrick

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Samuel Johnson

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
Russian Proverb

Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Coleman Cox

Her frocks are built in Paris but she wears them with a strong English accent.
Saki

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Modesty died when clothes were born.
Mark Twain

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
Mark Twain

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

Don’t spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They’ll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.
Anonymous

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott

If it does stand out (my clothing) , then I guess it’s a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels
Shania Twain

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clothes don’t tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
Anonymous

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Bill Cosby

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

Not a gentleman; dresses too well.
Bertrand Russell

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jacqueline Kenned

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.
Mark Twain

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Giorgio Armani

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Albert Einstein