„Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside.“

„This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.“

—  Matt Haig British writer 1975

Source: The Humans

„As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.“

—  Trinny Woodall English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author 1964

As quoted in "MEN reader meets Trinny and Susannah" by Helen Tither in Manchester Evening News (9 October 2006)

„We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.“

—  Virginia Woolf, book The Waves

Source: The Waves

„Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.“

—  Sydney Smith English writer and clergyman 1771 - 1845

Source: Vol. II, letter to Catherine Crowe (31 January 1841), pp. 441–442 note: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

„Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.“

—  Edward Carpenter British poet and academic 1844 - 1929

"Custom," http://books.google.com/books?id=5WxIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Every+human+being+grows+up+inside+a+sheath+of+custom+which+enfolds+it+as+the+swathing+clothes+enfold+the+infant%22&pg=PA136#v=onepage The Fortnightly Review (1 July 1888)
"Custom," http://books.google.com/books?id=WRhwu0Lvag0C&q=%22Every+human+being+grows+up+inside+a+sheath+of+custom+which+enfolds+it+as+the+swathing+clothes+enfold+the+infant%22&pg=PA148#v=onepage Civilization Its Cause And Cure And Other Essays (1889) p. 148

„Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot?
Jenny: What?
Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jenny: Is that what you are?
Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.“

—  L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

„WE MUST INVENT FUTURIST CLOTHES, hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes, daring clothes with brilliant colours and dynamic lines. They must be simple, and above all they must be made to last for a short time only in order to encourage industrial activity and to provide constant and novel enjoyment for our bodies.“

—  Giacomo Balla Italian artist 1871 - 1958

(Manuscript, 1913); as quoted at dekorera.tumblr: futurist manifesto of men's clothing http://dekorera.tumblr.com/post/3212646425/futurist-manifesto-of-mens-clothing-by-giacomo
Futurist Manifesto of Men's clothing,' 1913/1914

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

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Vol. I, p. 2

„Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.“

—  Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist 1818 - 1883

Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg. 49.
(Buch I) (1867)

„Titles are like clothes: they do not make the man.“

—  Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

„We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
Covered with love as a covering tree,
We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
O love, my love, had you loved but me!“

—  Algernon Charles Swinburne, book Poems and Ballads

Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: In the change of years, in the coil of things,
In the clamour and rumour of life to be,
We, drinking love at the furthest springs,
Covered with love as a covering tree,
We had grown as gods, as the gods above,
Filled from the heart to the lips with love,
Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings,
O love, my love, had you loved but me!

„The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.“

—  Yves Saint Laurent fashion designer 1936 - 2008

„ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.“

—  Ambrose Bierce American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist 1842 - 1914

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

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

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Variant: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

„Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man.“

—  David Hume, book Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

Part I, Essay 15: The Epicurean
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)

„I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth“

—  Benjamin Harrison American politician, 23rd President of the United States (in office from 1889 to 1893) 1833 - 1901

Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5 http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D01E0DD1339E033A2575AC2A96E9C94609ED7CF
Context: I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

„Old and sick, more than one hundred years
Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains
A cloth covered phantom watching the years flow by
Why envy people with clever ways of living?“

—  Han-shan Chinese monk and poet

Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry

„I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Source: Infinity

„Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.“

—  Arthur Helps British writer 1813 - 1875

‘Unreasonable Claims in Social Affections and Relations’, Chapter IX.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),