Ragtime Quote by Frances Brody

“Fashion is a cruel mistress.”

— Hester Browne

“like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.”

— Leah Wilson

“It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?”

— John Irving

“All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”

— John Yorke

“I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and…

— Charles Dickens

“We need to find something to hold your pants up or it's going to be a very scandalous evening. Well, more so than it…

— Kiera Cass

“...the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.”

— Lorna Jowett

“History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.”

— George Eliot

“I think that this feigning, this ceaseless pretense of interest in matters to me supremely boring, was what wore me out more than anything…

— C.S. Lewis

“The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral. Haute couture and getting hauter.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable…

— Hal Duncan