fashion

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

—Drayton, Michael

One week he's in polka-dots, the next week he's in stripes 'Cos he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

—Davies, Ray(mond Douglas)

I have forgot much,Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee,Cynara! in my fashion.

—Dowson, Ernest

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind.

—Cassini, Oleg Lolewski

No woman can look as well out of the fashion as in it.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

—Merton, Paul

Fashionöa word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

—Churchill, Charles

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

—Chase, EdnaWoolman

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

—Hazlitt,William

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

—Crabbe, George

   Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

—Chanel, Gabrielle known as  Coco

So 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.

—Schmitt,Wolfgang Rudolph

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.

—Lurie, Alison

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

—Chanel, Gabrielle known as  Coco

Fashion ismoretyrannical at Paristhaninanyother place in the world; it governs even more absolutely than their king, which issaying a great deal. The least revolt against it is punished by proscription.You must observe and conform to all the minutiae of it, if you will be in fashion there yourself; and if you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

—Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

—Sandys, George

Fashion is the image of an age and can tells its story better than a speech.

—Lagerfeld, Karl

Fashion iswhatonewears oneself.What isunfashionable is what other people wear.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

—Cocteau,Jean

And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

—Goldsmith, Oliver

Fashion should be a game.

—Quant, Mary

I was here convinced of the truth of a reflection I had often made, that if it was the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

—Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint

: He hath been beyond-sea, once, or twice. : As far as Paris, to fetch over a fashion, and come back again.

—Jonson, Ben

   I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoiled in the making. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork; and, for the fashion, I believe they were made in the days of Queen Bess.

—Swift,Jonathan

Mrs Boffin†is a highflyer at Fashion.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe,'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?'And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent,'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'

—Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn ne¤  e Stevenson

A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.

—Connolly, Cyril Vernon

I never cared for fashion much. Amusing little seams and witty little pleats. It was the girls I liked.

—Baker, Colin

Fine cloth is never out of fashion.

—Fuller,Thomas

One had as good be out of the World, as out of the Fashion.

—Cibber, Colley

The present fashion is always handsome.

—Fuller,Thomas

Wemust not seek tofashion events, but let them happen of their own accord.

—LouisNapoleon Bonaparte

   But all is turned, through my gentleness, Into a strange fashion of forsaking.

—Wyatt, SirThomas (the Elder)

You hear of me, among others, as a respectable architectural man-milliner; and you send for me, that I 704 may tell you the leading fashion.

—Ruskin,John

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionöthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

—Pepys, Samuel

It is in vain to mislike the current fashion.

—Fuller,Thomas

   Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in the world reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)