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Fashion Quotes - Page 88

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tyron Edwards, p. 127, 1908.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

John Locke (1728). “Two Treatises of Government: In the Former the False Principles & Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer & His Followers, are Detected & Overthrown; the Latter is an Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent & End of Civil Government”, p.49

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.590, Delphi Classics

The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.

John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.1849, e-artnow

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.48

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

"How to Be a Working Actor, 5th Edition: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film & Television". Book by Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers, p. 41, July 7, 2010.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.195, Hachette UK