Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Fashion
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Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
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A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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.
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Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
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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.
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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.
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