All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. (Quote by - John Webster)
Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron))
Cloten: Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there? What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon. What, up and down carved like an apple tart? Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop. Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It takes nine tailors to make a man. (Quote by - John Heywood)
Get me some French tailor To new-create you. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Cornwall: Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further, but they have new creators, God tailor and god mercer. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne. (Quote by - Thomas Percy)
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. (Quote by - John Ford)
As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the making up of a man, Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature; And did he not, each morning, new create thee, Thou'dst stink and be forgotten. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatched away. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? (Quote by - John Heywood)
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance. (Quote by - Sir John Harrington)
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt, (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
What a fine man Hath your tailor made you! (Quote by - Philip Massinger)