"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
— Coco Chanel

"Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?"
— David Sedaris

"As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
— Erma Bombeck

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. "
— Dolly Parton

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden, or Life in the Woods)

"Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping"
— Bo Derek

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"
— Dolly Parton

"Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?"
— Dorothy Parker

""Lipstick is not just for looking glamorous;it can be used to signal for help on windows and other surfaces."
"
— Nancy Drew

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
— Quentin Crisp

"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What do women want? Shoes."
— Mimi Pond

"Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.
"
— Melissa de la Cruz (Blue Bloods)

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. "
— Jim Morrison

"People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there."
— Dolly Parton

"Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave."
— Joan Crawford

"He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”"
— Michelle Obama

""Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing."
The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum
Thomas Hillgrove, 1857"
— Thomas Hillgrove

"I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots"
— Jim Morrison (Jim Morrison's an American Prayer)

"The Devil's out of fashion."
— Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle)

"Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it."
— Elizabeth Hawes

"One has to be proactive in warding off ugly, and that costs money."
— Kristin Billerbeck (The Trophy Wives Club)

"Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else."
— Clinton Kelly

"Do what makes you happy;
Be with who makes you smile;
Laugh as much as you breathe;
& love as long as you live.
"
— -*abercrombie&fitch

"It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist."
— Elizabeth Hawes (Why is a Dress?)

"Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

"There will be days that you don’t want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you’ve just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.
"
— Big Mama

"One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery."
— Grant Morrison (Sebastian O)

"I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up"
— Frank O'Hara

"The most important thing to wear is a smile."
— Ann Taylor

"plaid shirts and striped pants rarely make a positive fashion statement."
— the Paperclip helper from Microsoft Word Documents!

"Imelda, you are a crook with good shoes."
— Erin

"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

"It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely."
— Charles Baudelaire

"No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics."
— Elizabeth Hawes (It's Still Spinach)

"If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants."
— Elizabeth Hawes (It's Still Spinach)

"Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would."
— Lain Ehmann (Snippets: Mostly True Tales from the Lighter Side of Scrapbooking)

"I've always found a way to make something work. If the front door is locked, I will go around back. If that is locked, I will try a window, and if that's locked, I'll break it."
— Summer Rayne Oakes (Style, Naturally: The Global Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty)