clothes quotes

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

“I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”

— Dale Carnegie

“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

— Henry John Kaiser

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.”

— Kim Kardashian

“We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”

— Barack Obama

“People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.”

— Charles Stanley

“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”

— Virginia Woolf

“There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.”

“Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.”

“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”