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.

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