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Fashions fade, style is eternal. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. -- Anna Quindlen
Fashions in sin change. -- Lillian Hellman
Fashions are induced epidemics. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless. -- Beau Brummell
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. -- Anna Quindlen
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also. -- Marcel Proust
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them. -- Sam Ewing
Clothes are expensive. Save money and become a nudist. Remember: Fashions may change, but naked is always in style. -- Jarod Kintz
I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place. -- Nancy Lancaster
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display. -- Dionne Brand
For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there. -- Oscar de la Renta
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. -- Jacques Barzun
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry David Thoreau
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. -- Walt Disney
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. -- Woodrow Wilson
I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me. -- Bettie Page
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. -- John Webster
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. -- Hesiod
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. -- Dante Alighieri
Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. -- Walter Pater
I don't really follow any fashions. I just wear what I want to wear each day. I don't care if they clash or not. -- Pixie Lott
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. -- Norman Cousins
At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it. -- Tiesto
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires. -- Annie Besant
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. -- Jane Jacobs
When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better. -- Maria Sharapova
In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible. -- Garry Kasparov
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -- Alexander Pope
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions. -- Dorothy Height
I always sold other peoples' fashions, so I wore jeans and t-shirts, and I put on what they needed to sell, and I'd sell it. So as far a nurturing my own style, it took me quite a long time to do it. -- Brooke Shields
My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn. -- Indra Nooyi
Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. -- Avi
I'm for style - fashions change too often. -- Coco Chanel
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions. -- H. L. Mencken
Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. -- Michael Jackson
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti -- Jacques Barzun
I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them. -- Alex Flinn
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions -- Voltaire
Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes. -- Billy Graham
Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's -- Erwin Chargaff
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -- Lillian Hellman
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. -- Jasper Fforde
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper... -- Kate Bush
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last." -- George Bernard Shaw
New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct. -- Seth Godin
A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget. -- A.J. Darkholme
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. -- Aeschylus
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions. -- William Shakespeare
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change. -- Cliff Martinez
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. -- Marie de France
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. -- Thomas Hoving
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless. -- Thomas Huxley
A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer. -- Hesiod
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. -- Edward Abbey
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
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions. -- Michael Mauboussin
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Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. -- Bram Stoker
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. -- W. Somerset Maugham
But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions. -- Gail Carriger
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. -- Francine Mathews
I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it. -- Tiesto
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.] -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage. -- William Ralph Inge
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future. -- I. F. Stone
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. -- John Leo
I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails. -- Meryl Streep
O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty. -- Francis Asbury
We understand â?¦ that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form. -- Karl Blossfeldt
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. -- Gilbert Murray
We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years. -- Glenn Miller
The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible. -- Brett Morgen
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. -- Jane Jacobs
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. -- Martin Cruz Smith
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. -- Martin Cruz Smith
The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect! -- C.F.W. Walther
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. -- Alex Kapranos
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date. -- Henry David Thoreau
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception. -- Freda Adler

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