Quotes
Quotes about Fashion
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. [Lat., Curiosis fabricavit inferos.]
