Fashions Quotes
115 Fashions quotes by 100 unique authors
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You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I…
— Caroline Stevermer
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Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the…
— James Allen
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What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He…
— Jean Cocteau
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was…
— Lillian Hellman
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we…
— Jasper Fforde
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
— Bram Stoker
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In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
— Edward Abbey
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What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest…
— Gail Carriger
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Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born…
— Baltasar Gracian
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we…
— Mark Twain
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Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.
— Gail Carriger
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
— Lillian Hellman
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs…
— Barry Ritholtz
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes…
— Unknown Author
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are…
— Alexander Pope
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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which…
— Martin Cruz Smith
Who Wrote These Fashions Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 115 Fashions Quotes, led by these top contributors: