Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Clothes Quotes

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

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The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

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The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

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MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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