Fashion.—Fashion's smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, except virtue.—Colton.
A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.—Mlle. De l'Espinasse.
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.—J.G. Holland.
Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.—Channing.
The Empress of France had but to change the position of a ribbon to set all the ribbons in Christendom to rustling. A single word from her convulsed the whalebone market of the world.—J.G. Holland.
A fashionable woman is always in love—with herself.—La Rochefoucauld.
Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich.—Chamfort.
Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
—Churchill.
Fear.—The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.—Psalm 111:10.
O, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
—Longfellow.