Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Fashion - christiansquoting.org.uk

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. -- Natalie Barney, _Little Mistresses_

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Exuberance is better than taste.-- Flaubert

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry Thoreau (Walden, 1854)

It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong. Tiorio (?)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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