Clown Quote by Alexander Pope

Expression is the dress of thought.

— Alexander Pope

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

— Lord Chesterfield

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,…

— Alexander Pope

A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust…

— Jonathan Swift

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

— Thorstein Veblen

“Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a…

— Walter Scott

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

— Charlotte Lennox

“I wore a white velvet gown, similar to my Smolny dress. I looked forward to the day when I could wear any color in…

— Robin Bridges

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

— Anonymous

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

— Bret Harte