Quotes of Mode - somelinesforyou

“ Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion. ”

- Colley Cibber

“ He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Fashions fade - style is eternal. ”

- Yves Saint Laurent

“ There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales. ”

- Chaucer

“ Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Zeal is only fit for wise men, but it is chiefly in fashion among fools. ”

- John Tillotson

“ Self-plagiarism is style. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ”

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“ I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste. ”

- Alain Rene Lesage

“ If I have a style, I am not aware of it. ”

- Michael Graves

“ Work divided is in that manner shortened. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ”

- Paul De Man

“ It is time to effect a revolution in female manners — time to restore to them their lost dignity — and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. ”

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and lifestyle. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity… ”

- George Steiner

“ If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. ”

- Hans Bethe

“ Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. ”

- Ezra

“ Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ”

- Jacqueline Bisset

“ Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. ”

- Paul De Man

“ Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life. ”

- Aristotle

“ Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. ”

- Nadine Gordimer

“ Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life. ”

- David Grayson
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