Marcel Proust Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Horse, Children

• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Grace, Prejudice

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

• Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Clothes, World

  Marcel Proust (2016). “The Guermantes Way”, p.461, Marcel Proust

• Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Son, Aristocracy

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

• Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Desire

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.777, Delphi Classics

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