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3067 Fashion quotes by 1594 unique authors
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like…
— Margaret Mead
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were…
— Aberjhani
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
— Samuel Johnson
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Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you…
— Henry Beston
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
— Renata Adler
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more…
— Marcel Proust
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
— Lord Chesterfield
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
— Samuel Johnson
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
— Mark Twain
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Modesty died when clothes were born.
— Mark Twain
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the…
— William Hazlitt
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it…
— William Hazlitt
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There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must…
— Caitlin Moran
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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.
— Lord Byron
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In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look…
— David Bowie
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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
— Charles Dickens
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
— Oscar Wilde
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