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Dress: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.— T. S. iv. 3.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye?— T. S. iv. 3

And now, my honey love, We will return unto thy father's house; And revel it as bravely as the best; With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings, With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things: With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery, And amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. The tailor stays thy leisure, To deck thy body with his rustling treasure.— T. S. iv. 3

My dukedom to a beggarly denier, I do mistake my person all this while: Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot, Myself to be a marvellous proper man. I'll be at charges for a looking-glass; And entertain a score or two of tailors, To study fashions to adorn my body. Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.— R III. i. 2

The gown? why, ay; -Come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God! what masking stuff is here? What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon: What! up and down, carv'd like an apple-tart? Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slas Like to a censer in a barber's shop:- Why, what, o' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?— T. S. iv. 3

Cloten. Thou villain base, Know'st thou not me by my cloaths? Guiderius. No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather: he made those cloaths, Which, as it seems, make thee.— CyT. iv. 2

I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword his sword clean; nor believe he can have every thing in him for— A. W. iv. 3

keeping his apparel neatly.