Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Fashion

• There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Fashion, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

• They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Lonely, New York

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

• Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Country, Fashion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.44, Xist Publishing

• I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Eye, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.156, Harvard University Press

• If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Fashion, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.69

• Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fashion, Distance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

• Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Children, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Рипол Классик

• Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Growing Up, Violence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

• Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.90, 谷月社

• The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, whohas; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Fashion, Liars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1123, Delphi Classics

• I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

• If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Money, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.403

• For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, War, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.94, 谷月社

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