Quotes About Dandyism

#1. Dandyism is a variety of genius.

William Hazlitt

#2. True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Max Beerbohm

#3. Dandyism is a species of genius.

William Hazlitt

#4. Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Sebastian Horsley

#5. We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

Robert Adam

#6. Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Sebastian Horsley

#7. Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

George Meredith

#8. Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

Kate Spade

#9. Our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

Newt Gingrich

#10. One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

Elizabeth Berkley

#11. There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

Bill Watterson

#12. One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Grant Morrison

#13. To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Jean Chretien

#14. The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.

William Feather

#15. The public seldom forgive twice.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#16. Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

Martin Samuel

#17. Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

Charles Bass

#18. How do you protect yourself from something you can't even see?

Diana Murdock

#19. MODESTY My momma, your momma, gonna catch a witch My momma, your momma, flying on a switch My momma, your momma, witches never cry My momma, your momma, witches gonna die! As

J.K. Rowling

#20. Fear is your brains way of protecting you,
overcoming fear is the souls way of loving you

Steven Aitchison

#21. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

#22. It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Margaret Mead

#23. I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.

Michael Jordan

#24. Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." (he points to his shirt) "Look. Jammies.

Cassandra Clare