Top 100 Garment Quotes
#1. As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
John Chrysostom
#2. He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
Kahlil Gibran
#3. Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.
Bartholomaus
#4. If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. When I buy an inexpensive shirt made in a sweatshop in China, am I willing to think about the person who made it - about what kind of life he or she lives in order for me to buy a $10 garment? Or do I pat myself on the back for my skills as a bargain shopper?
William H. Albritton Sr.
#6. Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#7. Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14).
Stephen W. Smith
#8. In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#9. Religion is, for the most part, our way of covering ourselves, a means of sewing respectability, morality, and charity into a patchwork garment that can hide our nakedness.
Michael S. Horton
#10. What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.
Saint John Chrysostom
#11. Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.
Francisco Costa
#12. To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
Barbara Tuchman
#13. Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
Samuel Smiles
#14. Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
John Heywood
#15. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who sleep in Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. GEN25.25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. GEN25.26
Anonymous
#17. Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.
Graham Lord
#18. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.
Henry Adams
#19. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Anne Carson
#21. What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis
#22. Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything. The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.
Kate Chopin
#23. She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
Kate Chopin
#24. Has the body a soul? No. The soul has a body. And well does that soul know when this body has served its purpose, and well does that soul do to lay it aside in high austerity, taking it off like a stained garment.
Megory Anderson
#25. I think it is important for every actress to be able to feel whatever garment she has on because, we as women, we know when we look good. We know when we feel good.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#26. 28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Anonymous
#27. Upheavals come only when man is set on some particular way of life, and is called to forgo that. When the fixed desire is to do the Father's Will, then there is no real change. The leaving of home, town, country is but as the putting off a garment that has served its useful purpose.
A.J. Russell
#28. Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.
Salman Rushdie
#29. Many are called to the wedding-feast, that is, to salvation, but few have the wedding-garment, the righteousness of Christ, the sanctification of the Spirit. Then let us examine ourselves whether we are in the faith, and seek to be approved by the King.
Henry Matthew
#30. The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.
Aldous Huxley
#31. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
Ray Bradbury
#32. I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.
Gina Barreca
#33. Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton
#34. Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over.
Hilda Doolittle
#35. Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#36. Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning.
Sandra Marie Schneiders
#37. PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
Elizabeth Hawes
#39. Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#40. Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Charles Spurgeon
#41. Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
William Butler Yeats
#42. When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Herodotus
#43. That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly."
"That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said ...
Michael Chabon
#44. My soul Is Naked.
It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
Rumi
#45. Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.
Cornel West
#46. Folding a garment often reminds me of the priests who carve Buddhist statues. They gaze intently at a piece of wood until they see the shape of the figure within it and carve the wood until it emerges.
Marie Kondo
#47. God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
Oscar Romero
#48. I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins
particularly fashionable sins.
J.G. Holland
#50. Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
Cornelia Funke
#51. Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
Winston Churchill
#52. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.
Issey Miyake
#54. [Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time]
"The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God." - Deutronomy 22:5
Miriam Gurko
#55. Myth and nature are the two great garments of the world, with nature being the living green garment that covers the planet and myth being the multidimensional, many-colored fabric that continually weaves human culture.
Michael Meade
#56. As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
Luc De Clapiers
#57. 'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.
Nicole Richie
#58. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
Mary Antin
#59. I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.
Dries Van Noten
#60. Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
John Dryden
#62. I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.
Fran Lebowitz
#63. A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
Heinrich Heine
#64. There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#66. My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
W.S. Merwin
#67. There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.
Martin Luther
#68. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
#69. One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#70. His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!
Charles Dickens
#71. He merely sought a framework, like a coat hanger on which he could hang his life. At least then it might look like a life which was ready to be inhabited rather than a crumpled garment on the floor.
Danny Scheinmann
#72. Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#75. And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#76. My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.
Dudley Nichols
#77. Life is an endless circle within God. From before birth to beyond the transition called death, I am filled with life. My soul wears this earth garment I call my body, which I cherish and care for. When I finally lay it down, my soul continues to live, always in God's care and keeping.
Daily Word
#78. in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.
Terry Law
#79. Garment trade. Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant - given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and
Malcolm Gladwell
#80. He left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Genesis 39:12 In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
Vidya Balan
#82. Great is the Baptism that lies before you:44 a ransom to captives; a remission of offences; a death of sin; a new-birth of the soul; a garment of light; a holy indissoluble seal; a chariot to heaven; the delight of Paradise; a welcome into the kingdom; the gift of adoption!
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#83. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Kahlil Gibran
#84. There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
Joseph Joubert
#86. Their garment? Have they but one?"
"Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.
Mark Twain
#87. Patience is a garment which has never worn out.
Idries Shah
#88. A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
Russell Smith
#89. The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#90. I plan to let Lysander rip the garment off me, make love to me in the dirtiest way possible, and then, while he's trying to catch his breath, drop the big, bad bombshell on him and run like hell.
Bianka to Kaia
Gena Showalter
#91. Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
Tariq Ramadan
#92. Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
Umar
#93. Put on the Word like a protective garment every morning. Speak the Word, pray the Word, live the Word, and let it live in you so it becomes part of your armor.
Stormie O'martian
#94. The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed.
Bill Guggenheim, Judy Guggenheim
#95. Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.
F.B. Meyer
#96. Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You ... you would rather go naked into the storm.
Robin Hobb
#97. We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.
Gerald Durrell
#98. Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother Teresa
#99. The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.
Saul Bellow
#100. This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
William Wordsworth
