Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity o...f mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence.... In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
let us rejoice That he lets us hope, for... He may never become a fashionable or Important personage: However bad he may be, he has not yet gone mad;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This artless young creature [Evelina], with too much beauty to escape notice, has too much sensibility to be indifferent to it; bu...t she has too little wealth to be sought with propriety by men of the fashionable world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetl...y. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when it... depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity... for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »