Fashion Quotes

"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."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
-George Bernard Shaw

"What a deformed thief this fashion is."
-William Shakespeare

"A character is a completely fashioned will."
-Novalis

"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
-Paul De Man

"One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
-Colley Cibber

"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
-Gilda Radner

"The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain."
-W. Somerset Maugham

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
-Coco Chanel

"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
-Giorgio Armani

"There's never a new fashion but it's old."
-Geoffrey Chaucer

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
-Lillian Hellman

"Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people."
-Stella Blum

"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."
-Elsa Schiaparelli

"Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike."
-Eric Bentley

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
-Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
-Michel de Montaigne

"There is no bounce even though the market has been down four straight days. Buying on the dip has fallen from fashion."
-Dick Green

"If you're a rock star, a movie star, an athlete, fashion is where pop culture converges."
-Tor Myhren

"The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man."
-Bob Goddard

"Each one of the divisions of public safety deal with the public in some form or fashion."
-Bill James

"He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda."
-William Gale

"It's just a family hobby, a family event, for us. (Ole Fashion Day) is a way to come together. Everyone needs a break."
-Brenda Johnson

"Halston is a fashion brand, and Jeff is a stylish guy."
-Ron Rolleston

"When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience."
-Mary Austin

"If you think of these weapons coming in from Libya in the 1980s and and now being put beyond use in this fashion, from that angle it is historic."
-Paul Bew