Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Pride, Clothes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.454

• Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Past, Looks

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

• A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Admiration, Indifference

• Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Grace, Virtue

• Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Vogue, Turns

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.233

• Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Party, Past

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

• Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Sacrifice, Shade

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.255

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