William Shakespeare Fashion Quotes & Sayings

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare

I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
And this is all. — William Shakespeare

Perseverance ... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. — William Shakespeare

And whatsomever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue, I will requit your love. So, fare your well. My lord, he hath importuned me with love, in honourable fashion. — William Shakespeare

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. — William Shakespeare

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face. — William Shakespeare

What a deformed thief this fashion is. — William Shakespeare

ORLANDO: O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed,
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion,
And having that do choke their service up — William Shakespeare

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. — William Shakespeare

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. — William Shakespeare

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions. — William Shakespeare

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. — William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. — William Shakespeare

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost. — William Shakespeare

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion. — William Shakespeare

The soul of this man is his clothes. — William Shakespeare

Tis a commodity that will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't, while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion; richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now. — William Shakespeare

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion. — William Shakespeare

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation — William Shakespeare

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. — William Shakespeare

Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves
-Cicero — William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. — William Shakespeare

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having ... — William Shakespeare