Fashion Quotes - Page 35

• Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Clothes, Worms

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• Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Clothes, People, Desire

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.116, e-artnow

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• One should always dress like a marble column.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Clothes, Dresses, Columns

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• The soul of this man is his clothes.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Clothes, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.147, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feet, Clothes, High Heels

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• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hero, Sacrifice, Fighting

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

  Henry Beston

  Beautiful, Clothes, Years

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• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

  Renata Adler

  Inspirational, Self, Clothes

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

  Marcel Proust

  Clothes, World, Dinner

  Marcel Proust (2016). “The Guermantes Way”, p.461, Marcel Proust

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• Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Past, Looks, Tradition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Style

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Regimes

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, People, Wife

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• Some days I'm very lazy, and some days I'm more inspired. I've got things I've had since I was fifteen - I don't throw anything away. I prefer to give it to a friend so I can wear it again...The way I dress doesn't necessarily have to do with fashion, or what is current, or what is in right now, it's more about rediscovering things.

  Cate Blanchett

  Makeup, Giving, Lazy

  "Meet the Real Cate Blanchett". Interview with Bobbi Brown, www.yahoo.com. September 17, 2014.

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• 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

  Cat, Tree, Tails

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  Lana Del Rey

  Inspiration, Past, Nostalgia

  "Lana Del Rey is 'oh so pretty' for 'British Vogue'" by Andi Teran, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

  Andrej Pejic

  Being Yourself, Different, Form

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

  Coco Chanel

  Dresses, Forgotten, Designer

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• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Mother, Writing

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• Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

  Coco Chanel

  Long, Advice, Dresses

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• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Discovery, Two

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Mean, Science, Medicine

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• 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 de Montaigne

  Love, Simple, Squares

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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• I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

  Katharine Hepburn

  Men, Long Ago, Trying

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• You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

  Paul Smith

  Inspiration, Ifs

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