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Quotations by Subject: Fashion
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400)
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
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Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
Appearances are not the full cloth of a woman, but they are the most readily seen.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado About Nothing", Act III scene iii
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