Thomas Carlyle Clothes Quotations

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.