We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. – Captain J. G. Stedman

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. – Otto von Bismarck