Fashion Quotes - Page 34

• The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.

  Emilia Clarke

  Hair

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke On Daenerys’ ‘Blueprint’ For The Future". Interview with Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

  Anni-Frid Lyngstad

  Thinking, Slave, Conscious

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• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

  Walter de La Mare

  Clever, People, Perfect

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  Charles Ferguson

  Justice, Diversity, Trophies

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• In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

  Alice Walker

  Order, America, Justice

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.79, Rutgers University Press

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lonely, New York, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

  Janette Barber

  Clever, Thinking, Hair

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Regret, Reading, Loss

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.

  William R. Looney III

  Military, Years, Class

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Ambition, White

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• Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

  Virgil

  Art, Stars, Latin

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• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Life, Success, Believe

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

  Aberjhani

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Reality

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• The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Freedom, Majority, Opinion

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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  Edith Sitwell

  Vices, Taste, Worst

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

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• A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hair, Clothes, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.970, Delphi Classics

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• Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Clothes, Want

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 475 (27 March 1776)

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• Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Modesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• Modesty died when clothes were born.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Modesty, Born

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Clothes, Trying, Obscurity

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

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• There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Female

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• I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, then The Dress needs to have The Belt, and a complementary but not overly-matching bag must be found which works with not only the correct hosiery, but with something to throw over yourself if you become chilly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Clothes, Over You, Littles

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• Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

  Lord Byron

  Clothes, Balls, Woe

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.

  David Bowie

  Unique, Clothes, Order

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• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

  Charles Dickens

  Clothes, Expectations, Garments

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

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