"Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth,……" — Sebastian Horsley
"Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be."
More Dandyism Quotes
- A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion… — Lewis H. Lapham
- Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. — George Meredith
- Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade
- We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism… — Robert Adam
- Dandyism is a variety of genius. — William Hazlitt
- These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying… — Charles Baudelaire
- A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure,… — John Updike