fashion quotes

• Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress. (Robert Burton) [day/poets/fashion]
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. (John Locke) [fashion]
• I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. (Marlene Dietrich) [fashion/men]
• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. (Henry Fielding) [fashion/science//inspires]
• The New is not a fashion, it is a value. (Roland Barthes) [fashion/value]
• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/fashion]
• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. (Raymond Chandler) [fashion]
• Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. (Coco Chanel) [fashion]
• Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. (Coco Chanel) [fashion/matter]
• Fashion is made to become unfashionable. (Coco Chanel) [fashion]
• When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [fashion/right]
• I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion. (Ernest Dowson) [fashion]
• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. () [universe/intelligence/fashion]
• Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. (Albert Einstein) [fashion/experience]
• This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. (Albert Einstein) [painter/scientists/fashion]
• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. (Henry Fielding) [fashion/science//inspires]
• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. (Jean-Luc Godard) [beauty/fashion/pleasure]
• We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [fashion/desires/love/god]
• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. (Eric Hoffer) [cowardice/fashion]
• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before. (Eric Hoffer) [fashion/slogan/joke/start]
• We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back. (Lee Iacocca) [money/fashion]
• The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. (Samuel Johnson) [majority/fashion]
• We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. (Ben Jonson) [quality/women/fashion]
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. (John Locke) [fashion]
• 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. (David Mamet) [fashion/attempt/class/speech]
• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [love/fashion/willpower/needs]
• 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. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [anxiety/goodwill/fashion/right]
• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [fear/animals/fashion]
• 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. (Pablo Picasso) [fashion/more]
• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. (George Santayana) [fashion/innovation/benefit]
• 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. (Elsa Schiaparelli) [fashion/facts/politics/clothes]

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