Fine cloth is never out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
The present fashion is always handsome. [ Proverb ]
Fine clothes wear soonest out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
For fashion's sake, as dogs go to church. [ Proverb ]
What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. [ William Shakespeare ]
Personal force never goes out of fashion.
Money in purse will be always in fashion. [ Proverb ]
A truth
Looks freshest in the fashion of the day. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Equal nature fashion'd us
All in one mould.
All's but the outward gloss
And politic form that does distinguish us. [ Massinger ]
Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. [ Proverb ]
For the fashion of this world passeth away. [ Bible ]
Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion. [ Zimmermann ]
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. [ Shakespeare ]
It is in vain to dislike the current fashion. [ Proverb ]
Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion. [ Willmott ]
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion. [ Shenstone ]
As good out of the world, as out of the Fashion. [ Proverb ]
Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
What were once vices are now the fashion of the day. [ Seneca ]
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. [ William Shakespeare ]
This day we fashion destiny, our web of fate we spin. [ Whittier ]
Science has but one fashion - to lose nothing once gained. [ Stedman ]
In my dominions every one may be happy in his own fashion. [ Frederick the Great ]
I do not hear that a bribe on both sides is out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
There is no more hold of a new friend, than of a new fashion. [ Proverb ]
It is pride in fashion, that puts humility out of countenance. [ Proverb ]
Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion. [ Thackeray ]
Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe. [ Proverb ]
A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion. [ Johnson ]
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. [ William Shakespeare ]
The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion. [ Johnson ]
Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow. So arbitrary are these transient laws. [ Dumas ]
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honors and invariably lose the odd trick. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom - the very fashion of which passeth away.
[ Fenelon ]
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. [ Goethe ]
Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]
Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]
Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. [ Thoreau ]
A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]
If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]