Oscar Wilde Quotes about Fashion

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty, Fashion, Makeup

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, People, Understanding

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

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

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Purpose, Dressing Well

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Maturity, Night

1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Clothes, Modern

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, People, Ideal Husband

1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Children, Parent

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.19, Oscar Wilde

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Husband, Vulgarity Is

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Ties, Style

Oscar Wilde, John Cooper (2013). “Oscar Wilde on Dress (ebook): Including –The Philosophy of Dress– by Oscar Wilde”, p.15, CSM Press

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Flower, Clothes

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Fashion, Religious

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Oscar Wilde

Fashion, Moments, Fantastic

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Fashion, Being Alone

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Fashion, Art

Oscar Wilde Quotes about Fashion

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