William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Fashion

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Bravery never goes out of fashion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Memorial Day, Fashion, Courage

William Makepeace Thackeray (1891). “The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fashion, Different, Taste

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fashion, Men, Temptation

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38