Old Fashioned Quotes

• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

  Frances Farmer

  Style, Enough, Ifs

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• I am just an old-fashioned girl.

  Rose Kennedy

  Girl

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• My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

  Bob Hope

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• I'm a little old-fashioned.

  Barbara Bush

  Littles

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• Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Modern, Dangerous, Ideal Husband

  1895 Lord Mark by. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

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• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Clothes, Modern

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.816, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

  Johnny Depp

  Beer, Men, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.

  Ruth Westheimer

  "Ruth Westheimer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2010.

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Business, Style, Survival

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• I'm an old-fashioned guy.

  Demian Bichir

  Guy

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• Will you love me in December as you do in May,
  Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
  When my hair has all turned gray,
  Will you kiss me then and say,
  That you love me in December as you do in May?

  Jimmy Walker

  Love, Sexy, Kissing

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• It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Ideas, Lovely

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'

  Larry Walters

  Honesty, Commentary

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• Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

  Steve Earle

  Stories, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

  Lee Child

  Kind, Artisans, Approach

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• I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Modern

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• I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

  Max Beerbohm

  May

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). “Around Theatres”

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• The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Honesty, Simple

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.626, Routledge

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• I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

  Lauren Conrad

  Girl, Nice, Doors

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• If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

  Joni Mitchell

  People, Parent, Moral

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• I'm kind of old-fashioned, so I think the guy should always be the one to call. The girl just answers Or doesn't answer

  Hillary Scott

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  "Lady Antebellum Talk Dating, Drunk Dialing And Dylan". Interview with Annie Reuter, theboot.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

  Anne Enright

  Lovely, Raised, Ireland

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Dating, Encounters

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.523, Dell

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