William Shakespeare Quotes About Fashion

• Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  William Shakespeare (1871). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice”, p.623

• The apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fashion, War

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

• He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Memorable, Hats

  1598 Beatrice, of Benedick. Much AdoAbout Nothing, act1, sc.1, l.71-3.

• The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Encounters, Cost

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Memorable, Thieves

  1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

• I know them, yea,
  And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
  Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
  That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
  Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
  And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
  How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
  And this is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Hurt, Lying

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71

• The soul of this man is his clothes.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.147, BookCaps Study Guides

• Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
  To change true rules for odd inventions.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Fashion, Nice

  1593 Bianca to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.78-9.

• I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Faces, Barbers

  1595 Bottom. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc.1, l.23-6.

• Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Proud, Imitation

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.366, Wordsworth Editions

• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.361

• But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Purpose

  Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare (2009). “William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar”, p.132, Infobase Publishing

• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Glasses, Two

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

• The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Welcome, Ceremony

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.169, Classic Books Company

• What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Bravery, Brave

• A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Brain

  1594-5 King, of Armado. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.162-5.

• Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
  All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Land, Greed

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.43, Palgrave Macmillan

• O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Art, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56

• New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Ems, Ridiculous

  William Shakespeare, John Margeson (1990). “King Henry VIII”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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