(on unilateral disarmament)
If you carry this resolution you will send Britain's Foreign Secretary naked into the conference chamber.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
And thus they form a group that's quite antique
Half naked, loving, natural, and Greek.
Cummings E.E. 1894-1962
Collected Poems
a pretty girl who naked is, is worth a million statues.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
Tales of A Wayside Inn ‘The Student's Tale'
Our ingress into the world
Was naked and bare;
Our progress through the world
Is trouble and care.
Morris Desmond 1928-
The Naked Ape
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair.
The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry VI, Part 2
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry VIII
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
‘A Coat'
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
Blake William 1757-1827
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Donne John 1572-1631
‘Going to Bed'
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be.
Pinter Harold 1930-
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality'
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.