Foppery Quotes & Sayings

Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion. — Benjamin Franklin

He was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut ... there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve — Jane Austen

What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
— William Shakespeare

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. — Honore De Balzac

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,
often the surfeit
of our own behavior,
we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star. — William Shakespeare

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. — William Shakespeare

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness. — Horace Mann

But good luck to you - today and every day! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast. — Gregory Corso

Foppery is the egotism of clothes. — Victor Hugo

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that. — Christina Milian

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way. — Cheryl Strayed

Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead. — George Sewell

Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there
days when we were younger and fresher than we are now. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance. — Otto Heinrich Warburg

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb. — Samuel Johnson

Everybody funny, now you funny too. — George Thorogood

What am I to call it? Diffidence? The fear of ridicule? Inverted vanity? What matters names, if it has brought me to this? I could never bear to be bustling about nothing; I was ashamed of this toy kingdom from the first; I could not tolerate that people should fancy I believed in a thing so patently absurd! I would do nothing that cannot be done smiling. I have a sense of humour, forsooth! I must know better than my Maker. And it was the same thing in my marriage," he added more hoarsely. "I did not believe this girl could care for me; I must not intrude; I must preserve the foppery of my indifference. What an impotent picture!"
"Ay, we have the same blood," moralised Gotthold. "You are drawing, with fine strokes, the character of the born sceptic."
"Sceptic? - coward!" cried Otto. "Coward is the word. A springless, putty-hearted, cowering coward! — Robert Louis Stevenson

We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom. — Booth Tarkington

[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman. — Stefan Kieszling