Fashion Quotes

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Kathy Ireland

Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

Charles Dickens

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Henry David Thoreau

A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them.

Hardy Amies

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

Lily Tomlin

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

Theodore Zeldin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Benjamin Franklin

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.

Beau Brummel

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Shalom Harlow

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Oscar Wilde

Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde