"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)
“Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
Source: The Name of the Rose
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“The key to a successful restaurant is dressing girls in degrading clothes.”
Michael O'Donoghue (1940–1994) American actor and writer
Mr. Mike's America: A Comic's Trek with SNL's First Head Writer (1983)
“The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.”
Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist
Sens-plastique
“The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) poet, novelist, illustrator, performer
"Thoughts about the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Hell"
Selected Poems (1962)
“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”
Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer
