Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Hair, Clothes

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.970, Delphi Classics

• I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Book, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.2, Stanford University Press

• I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.622, Stanford University Press

• A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Littles, French Fashion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

• The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Fashion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

• Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Men, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

• It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Law, Should

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.125

• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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