Allusion Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can…

— Bill Bryson

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

— Ben Jonson

Every day, we all make the critical decision of what we're going to wear, because many of the people we encounter in a day…

— Kenneth Cole

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity…

— Horace Walpole

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

— Thorstein Veblen

Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality,…

— George Combe

What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you.…

— Oscar Isaac

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future,…

— Oleg Cassini

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not…

— Leigh Hunt

There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer…

— Maude Meagher

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

— Mary Anne Radmacher