401 quotes found
“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.”
“Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.”
“"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”
“Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”
“Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.”
“The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
“Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.”
“When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.”
“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.”
“Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.”
“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.”
“There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.”
“Fashions fade - style is eternal.”
“And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.”
