James Branch Cabell Quotes

Fashions in sin change.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.

I love reading fashion magazines, buying handbags, the usual things - but when you're in the moment and focusing on setting up the car, how you look is so irrelevant.

One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.

I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?

The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

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

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.