William Shakespeare Quotes About Fashion
-
O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .
→ -
The soul of this man is his clothes.
→ -
I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.
→ -
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
→ -
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
→ -
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
→ -
But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
→ -
Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
→ -
I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
→ -
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
→ -
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
→ -
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
→ -
What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
→ -
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
→ -
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
→ -
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
→ -
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
→ -
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
→ -
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
→ -
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.
→