Fashion quotes
Bentley Eric
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Bonaparte Napoleon 1822-1891
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
Castro Fidel 1926-
(on battledress)
Practical, simple, cheap and does not go out of fashion.
Chase Edna Woolman
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Chesterfield Lord 1694-1773
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Cocteau Jean 1889-1963
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Crabbe George 1754-1832
„The Library"
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools,
Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
Dowson Ernest 1867-1900
„Non Sum Qualis Eram"
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses, riotously, with the throng,
Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;
But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,
Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
Marie Queen of Romania
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Troilus and Cressida
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Troilus and Cressida
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
Sully Maximilen de Béthune, Duc de 1559-1641
(attributed)
The English take their pleasures sadly after the fashion of their country.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.
