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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. – Coco Chanel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide. – John Greenleaf Whittier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. – May Sarton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. – John Locke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. – Marcel Proust	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 12 years ago
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. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. – Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches. – Gilda Radner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nudists have no fashion sense. – Peter Kunkel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. – Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. – Rue McClanahan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fashion changes, style remains. – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Bravery never goes out of fashion. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. – Edna Woolman Chase	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. – Baltasar Gracian	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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