“A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
The Surplice Question; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.”
“Snow White” [play], p. 309.
The Teachings of Don. B: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme (1992)
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