“Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.”
" On the Clerical Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/ClericalCharacter.htm" (January/February 1818)
Political Essays (1819)
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English writer 1778–1830Related quotes

“Memories mean more to me than dresses.”

“People are more interested in ideas than dress.”
As quoted in "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" profile in The Greatest Canadian at CBC

Speech to the Conservative Party conference http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/oct/07/conservatives2002.conservatives1 (07 October 2002)

Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari

Letter to Bushrod Washington http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=FOEA-chron-1780-1783-01-15-12 (15 January 1783)
1780s

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker