Motivational Quotes

Fashion

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Fashion

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

France, Anatole

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Cobb, Irvin S.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Morley, Christopher

The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr? (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.

Laver, James

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Fielding, Henry

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Thoreau, Henry David

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

Mamet, David

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

Zeldin, Theodore

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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Bailey, David

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Man, Paul De

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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

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I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Radner, Gilda

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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Voltaire

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Lagerfeld, Karl

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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Chesterfield, Lord

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When in doubt, wear red.

Blass, Bill

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Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverb, French

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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Picasso, Pablo

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Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.

Ballard, Bettina

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Saint-Laurent, Yves

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He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Harlow, Shalom

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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Lauren, Ralph

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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Hays, Mary

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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb, Latin

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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

Shakespeare, William

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Lamb, Charles

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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Porter, Cole

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.