""Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"

"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

"Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off of you?"
— Flash Rosenberg

"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your rainment.
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say 'It is the north wind who has woven the clothes we wear.'
And I say, 'Ay, it was the north wind, but shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.'
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"People's clothes ought to be buried with them."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

"Good clothes open all doors."
— Thomas Fuller

""I'd rather buy clothes then buy a bed""
— Christian Siriano

"I keep trying to return. Nothing makes too much sense but in various ways."
— Steven A. Benson

"Dolls are just like real life. You buy loads of clothes for them, and still only end up with a few good outfits."
— Penny Nichols

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

"Like all of my important memories, it has a potency that has influenced the pocket of time that holds it, so I can remember that particular Saturday afternoon, even though in many ways it was no different from any other. I can remember, for example, what van der Glick was wearing as she stepped out of the elevator, which was a dress covered with clownish polka dots. Rainie would make these heartbreaking stabs at femininity; indeed, she still does. It's not that she doesn't possess a woman's body now, and didn't posses a girl's body then. But clothes never seemed to fit her correctly, and the more girlish they were, the worse they would hang."
— Paul Quarrington (The Ravine)