Fine Quote by Plautus Download Open image “Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.” — Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fine Garments Manners Mud Vulgarity
“We live kind of society where people scold you for wearing crop clothes. But for their own pleasure and entertainment this society tears your… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Many will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same,… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken… — George Carlin Copy Share Image