William Hazlitt Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Fashion, Gentility

  William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

  1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Issues, Clothes

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

• What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Trying

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.244

• Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Two, Ends

  1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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