Motivational Quotes

Fashion

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Fashion

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

Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Locke, John

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

Collins, Jackie

When in doubt, wear red.

Blass, Bill

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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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Cibber, Colley

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Lillian Hellman

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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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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

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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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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Cobb, Irvin S.

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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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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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

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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

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

Henry David Thoreau

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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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Radner, Gilda

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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Allen, Fred A.

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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Voltaire

37.

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

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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb, Latin

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

Gilda Radner

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

Hays, Mary

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Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Maria, Queen

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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