Quotations about

Fashion

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

—Oscar Wilde

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

—Mark Twain

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

—James Agee

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

—Peter Ustinov

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

—George Bernard Shaw

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

—Linda Ellerbee

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

—Unknown

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

—George Bernard Shaw

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

—P. J. O'Rourke

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

—Geoffrey Chaucer

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

—Gilda Radner

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

—Henry David Thoreau

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

—Oscar Wilde

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

—W. Somerset Maugham

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

—William Shakespeare