There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
