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“Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.”

People Study Rich Fashion Customs Temporary Principal Idle Elegance

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.”

Men May Character Sides Poor Laughing Rich Fashion Please Jokes Devil Currents Wit Nonsense Coats Both Sides Coins Rich Man Doubted Guinea

Book:The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

Source: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

“Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.”

Women Rich Fashion London Silk

Author:Aphra Behn

“A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.”

Doe Play Home Today Individual Roles Rich Influence Fashion Active Very Strong Nails Dressings Polish Doers Rich Women

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.”

Rich Fashion Riches Mask Annoyance

Book:The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems

Source: The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems

“I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.”

Thinking Want Humans Persons Easy Goal Challenges Human Beings Rich Achieve Fashion Decent Staying Get Rich Easy To Get Achieving Your Goals

Author:Katharine Hamnett