Quotation Explorer - 'Fashion'

There's never a new fashion but it's old. - Geoffrey Chaucer
Fashion changes, style remains.
That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my life creating, yet she was pristine the likes of which I could never fashion. - Hubert Martin
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - William Shakespeare
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. - Amy Carmichael
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Henry Fielding
Fashion is general. Style is individual. - Edna Woolman Chase
We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the page. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. - George Orwell
Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ inviting our gaze. - Mark Simpson
The glass of fashion and the mould of form - William Shakespeare
Style is a sacred fashion. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification. - Sara Sheridan
We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion. - Geoffrey Wood
You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion. - Bob Proctor
[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. - Anthony Lane
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon. - Karl Lagerfeld
The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. - Brenna Yovanoff
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst you need them both. - Karl Lagerfeld
Nudists have no fashion sense.
If you smile with passion, you will become a model at your very own fashion show. - Debasish Mridha
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers - Val McDermid
I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches. - Gilda Radner
Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion. - Donatella Versace
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion. - A.E. Samaan
Fashion is a distraction! - Cyc Jouzy
God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion. - Sunday Adelaja
History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters. - A.E. Samaan
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests - Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. - Karl Lagerfeld
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. - Henry David Thoreau
Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, where none will sweat but for promotion. - William Shakespeare
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. - George Bernard Shaw
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. - Dave Barry
What a deformed thief this fashion is. - William Shakespeare
God’s decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion. - Amit Kalantri
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. - Karl Lagerfeld
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. - Jules Renard
Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes. - Noel DeJesus
Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. - John Keay
The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. - Michael Lewis
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon
For me, every week is a fashion week. - Nuno Roque
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn. - Ambrose Bierce
Confidence is the beauty, kindness is the charm, style is the uniqueness and fashion is the mask. - Debasish Mridha
Princes & KingsIsn't it strange how princes and kings,and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people, like you and me,are builders for eternity?Each is given a list of rules;a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.And each must fashion, ere life is flown,A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone. - R. Lee Sharpe
Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion. - Jean Cocteau
Love is the most likable, invisible fashion of life that you can wear with passion. - Debasish Mridha
The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly. - Eberhard Jüngel
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. - Russell Baker
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion. - A.E. Samaan
I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? - Michael Crichton
Dead men make convenient heroes because they cannot rise to challenge the images we would fashion from their lives. And besides it’s easier to build a monument than to build a better world. - Rev. Dr. William Barber I
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I loo. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to the gym. - Adele
Nothing can stop a lie whose fashion has come... - Thomas Williams
Never despise fashion. It's what we have instead of God.
Fashion is for people who don't know who they are. - Quentin Crisp
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. - Michelle Obama
Passion is the most glamorous outfit not the most modern fashion. - Debasish Mridha
DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. - Ambrose Bierce
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too. - Karl Lagerfeld
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. - William Shakespeare
When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style. - Debasish Mridha
Every hour of every day spent with him, the slow slope of falling for this boy in more than just a carnal fashion has been like slowly pulling the strings on some great tapestry. Every day the weave becomes tighter, the picture clearer, everything more complete. - A.L. Davroe
Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. - Sigmund Freud
Fashion changes, but style endures. - Coco Chanel
Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death.
Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God`s Word so fashion your thought according to God`s Word. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. - A.E. Samaan
In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he’s ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy’s rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke. - Andrew Abrahams
Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement. - Miss Vera
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. - William Shakespeare
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement - Jess C. Scott
I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks. - Anna Bondoc
Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lucien thought; "there is plenty of time to kill myself. - Honoré de Balzac
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - Anthony Burgess
A flower is beautiful not because she knows what the new fashion is, but because she knows the desires of your heart. - Debasish Mridha
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. - Karl Lagerfeld
Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion. - John F. Nash
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive - Karl Lagerfeld
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. - Emily Dickinson
Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far away from your tender sensibilities. - Colleen Houck Ren
GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent. Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. - Ambrose Bierce
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Michel de Montaigne
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. - Edna Woolman Chase
Your fashion should reflect your true passion for life. - Debasish Mridha
The smile is civilization’s finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind’s coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture’s diploma: it is the diplomat’s badge. - Iwan Goll
All is fair in fashion and war. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. - Unknown
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner
Fashion is an art. - Lailah Gifty Akita
True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life. - Debasish Mridha
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. - Barbara Kingsolver
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair. - Karl Lagerfeld
... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... - Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. - Karl Lagerfeld
For the fashion of this world passeth away, - Bible
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change - Karl Lagerfeld
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny. - Heraclitus
Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. - Kurt Cobain
Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. - A.E. Samaan
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