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| Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. | | Plato | |
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| Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich | | Chamfort | |
| Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or | | Abraham Maslow | |
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. | | George Santayana | |
| Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. | | Quentin Crisp | |
| Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned | | George Santayana | |
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| Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue | | Moliere | |
| I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. | | Walt Disney | |
| If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside | | Alexander Pope | |
| It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions | | Voltaire | |
| It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. | | Anatole France | |
