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William Hazlitt
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Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minut
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Chaucer
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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Lord Chesterfield
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
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William Shakespeare
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The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
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Gilda Radner
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I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
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Linda Wells
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Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.
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Baltasar Gracian
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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William Shakespeare
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A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
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Dave Barry
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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
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Anthony Burgess
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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J. B. Priestley
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
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Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
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George J. Seidel
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The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
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Leo Tolstoy
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All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
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Eric Bently
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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 359.
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Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?
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Alice Walker
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In order to be able to live 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.
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R.H. STODDARD: _Autumn._
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Divinest autumn! who may paint thee best, Forever changeful o'er the changeful globe? Who guess thy certain crown, thy favorite crest, The fashion of thy many-colored robe?
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SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple: Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-monging boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go anticly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How t
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SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
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O good old man! how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion.
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SPENSER: _Hymn in Honor of Love._
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Such is the power of that sweet passion, That it all sordid baseness doth expel, And the refined mind doth newly fashion Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell In his high thought, that would itself excel; Which he, beholding still with constant sight,
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William Ellery Channing
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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.
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Jean Cocteau
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
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Fashion changes, style remains.
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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Nudists have no fashion sense.
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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
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Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
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Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.
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"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbert
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"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." - GILDA RADNER
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"I suffer from a severe fashion disorder." - Cosmo Fishhawk
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"The show hasn't started yet, you clueless fashion victims!" - Dot
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"The latest in fashion artillery..." -- TV's Frank
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"Quick, call the fashion police." -- Dot Warner
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"Insolent boy, this slave of fashion, basking in YOUR glory!!!"
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"This has indicated that I am damaged in some fashion" - Data
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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
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