Uniform Quotes

“Wikipedia: Uniform”

“Medals, rank, ribands, lace, embroidery, scarlet,
  Are things immortal to immortal man,
As purple to the Babylonian harlot:
  An uniform to boys is like a fan
To women; there is scarce a crimson varlet
  But deems himself the first in Glory’s van.”

“Suppose him in a handsome uniform,—
  A scarlet coat, black facings, a long plume,
Waving, like sails new shiver’d in a storm,
  Over a cock’d hat in a crowded room,
And brilliant breeches, bright as a Cairn Gorme,
  Of yellow casimire we may presume,
White stocking drawn uncurdled as new milk
O’er limbs whose symmetry set off the silk.”