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Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. -- Margaret Thatcher
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. -- Mary Quant
Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. -- Oscar de la Renta
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. -- Marcel Proust
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. -- Joan Didion
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. -- Horace Bushnell
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. -- Douglas Coupland
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. -- Bernard de Mandeville
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least. -- Joseph Addison
Kindness is always fashionable. -- Amelia Barr
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. -- Cecil Beaton
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. -- Amelia Barr
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. -- Oscar Wilde
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. -- Jose Marti
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable. -- Adolf Loos
Being fashionable does not mean you have to drain your bank account. -- Brad Goreski
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. -- Ali Smith
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. -- Ayn Rand
Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.' -- Chris Robinson
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. -- George Mason
I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable. -- Marc Jacobs
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -- Carl Jung
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned -- George Santayana
I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal. -- Vidya Balan
People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. -- Padma Lakshmi
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. -- Sugata Mitra
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? -- Billie Joe Armstrong
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore. -- Antonio Banderas
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. -- Murray Kempton
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. -- Sylvester Stallone
I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable. -- Boy George
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. -- Stendhal
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism. -- Murray Bookchin
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. -- Charles Bukowski
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world. -- Sam Harris
Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable. -- John Roberts
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I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement. -- Vinod Khosla
Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier. -- Varg Vikernes
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there. -- Thomas S. Monson
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear. -- Mark Margolis
I listen to a lot of what my sister Rhea says. I give her a lot of credit for my stuff. When people give me credit for my fashion choices, it's my sister who creates them. This whole fashionable avatar has been created by her. It's her brainchild. It's not me at all. Rhea really takes care of me, though I am older than her. -- Sonam Kapoor
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name? -- Salman Rushdie
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people. -- Maeve Binchy
I'm against fashionable thinking. -- Herman Kahn
No art should be fashionable ... -- Ngaio Marsh
Fashion starts with fashionable people, -- Halston
I always wanted to be fashionable. -- John Malkovich
Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable -- Coco Chanel
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. -- Mary Quant
These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was! -- Dolly Parton
It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering -- Cornel West
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. -- John Wesley
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable. -- Gavin DeGraw
Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all. -- Megyn Kelly
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. -- Oscar Wilde
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. -- Dolly Parton
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen. -- Marie Windsor
I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable. -- Kenny Rogers
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. -- J. G. Holland
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. -- Lawrence Durrell
Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades. -- Trip Hawkins
Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup) -- Bruce Boudreau
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. -- Moliere
If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually. -- Dave Gahan
Privacy isn't dead, although it is fashionable for digerati to say so. -- Andrew Curry
It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs. -- Nimrat Kaur
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.... -- Dieter Rams
We have to make sustainable living convenient, sustainable business profitable & sustainable change fashionable -- Wayne Visser
It was fashionable, youre supposed to be a married lady, so I did. -- Dionne Warwick
My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable. -- Shameik Moore
The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow. -- Eric Nicol
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable. -- Miguel
It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable. -- Diane von Furstenberg
If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable. -- Peter Sagal
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything. -- Zadie Smith
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. -- Thomas Jefferson
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. -- Bertrand Russell
Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable. -- Richard Dawkins
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes. -- Elton John
My favorite jacket is an emergency item. Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable. -- Cassandra Clare
You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season. -- Tommy Hilfiger
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion. -- Erykah Badu
I've never done a trendy diet or subscribed to a fashionable health fad in my life. -- Matthew Hussey
It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train. -- Paul Theroux
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable. -- Paul Theroux
I've never worn incredible clothes - I'm not used to playing someone so put together and fashionable. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. -- Noam Chomsky
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady! -- James Merrick
Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct. -- Denis Waitley
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them. -- Mother Teresa
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I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. -- Miuccia Prada
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. -- Wendell Phillips
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. -- William Ellery Channing
Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it. -- Jean Cocteau
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. -- Mason Cooley
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Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. -- Harold MacMillan
He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. -- Rick Riordan
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better. -- Jared Leto
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. -- David Hackett Fischer
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. -- Mitt Romney
I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole clichÃ© of the moment. -- Herman Kahn
There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear. -- Stella McCartney
It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look. -- Laura Marano
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery. -- Paula Rego
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. -- Al Capp
People in Hong Kong are stylish and fashionable, which is one of the many reasons making Hong Kong itself such an energetic place. -- David Beckham
Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season. -- Tommy Hilfiger

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