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

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COOL
Read 200 of the best cool quotes about keeping calm, effortless style, confidence and cool evenings, from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and more.
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde
“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”
Oscar Wilde
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Oscar Wilde
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
Oscar Wilde
“Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Style is the dress of thoughts.”
Lord Chesterfield
“We may call that art true art which does not seem to be art.”
Baldassare Castiglione
“A sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
Robert Herrick
“Give me a look, give me a face, that makes simplicity a grace; robes loosely flowing, hair as free: such sweet neglect more taketh me.”
Ben Jonson
“True wit is nature to advantage dressed.”
Alexander Pope
“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
Mark Twain
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy.”
William Shakespeare
“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.”
William Shakespeare
“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core.”
William Shakespeare
“I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.”
William Shakespeare
“Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Affected simplicity is refined imposture.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
Lord Byron
“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed.”
Beau Brummell
“Never complain and never explain.”
Benjamin Disraeli