Mark Twain Quotes about Fashion

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

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

Mark Twain

Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Fashion, Inspiration, Men

Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain

Country, Fashion, Travel

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

Mark Twain

God, Fashion, Leaving

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.95, Xist Publishing

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Mark Twain

Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

Mark Twain

Fashion, Silly, Names

Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster