Francis Asbury Quotes

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

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

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

I honestly don't think that I am cool enough or important enough that anyone would care about what I am doing at all hours of the day like "I just had a latte from Starbucks and now I am going to Barney's. Love me some shoes!

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.