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  • A fashionable gentleman who much concerns himself withthefashions of gentlemenisneither fashionablenor a gentleman.

    - Stewart Alsop
      In Newsweek, 30  Jun.

  • A fashionable woman wears clothes; the clothes don't wear her.

    - Mary Quant
      Quant by Quant.

  • For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

    - George Sandys
      Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

  • As fattening is the first duty of fashionable female life, it must be duly enforced by the rod if necessary. I got up a bit of flirtation with missy, and induced her to rise and shake hands with me. Her face was lovely, but her body was as round as a ball.

    -John Hanning Speke
      In Karagwe, west of LakeVictoria, among the Galla people. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

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