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“Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.”

People Fashion Example Spread Wit Silly Ingenuity Silly People

Book:The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford

Source: The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford

“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

“In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.”

Years Philosophy Views Fashion Source Wit Organized Addresses Combat Adam Brutal Apes There Is No God Academia Cardinals Abhorrence

Book:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

“Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.”

Men Able Turns Moral Fashion Creation Criticism Wit Manners Elegant Diction

Author:James Branch Cabell

“When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?”

Littles Fashion Wit Shoulders Manners Attractive Good Man Conventional Exhibits Good Manners

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”

Ifs I Can Politics Land Fashion Birth Fit Let Me Greed Wit

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“If you have that spark that inspires other people, if you have a spark that gives resources to other people, that shares in really collaborative fashion, a spark of wit that kind of tells a story that gives people novel perspective of something, that's the kind of charisma that really leads to lasting power. It's not the kind of charisma that's seductive and self-aggrandizing. It's really a sort of a kind of social energy that really brings about the best in other people.”

People Giving Kind Energy Novel Share Fashion Inspire Perspective Wit Seductive Charisma

Author:Dacher Keltner