Showing posts with label Voltaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voltaire. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty seven
Photography by Horst P. Horst
"It is the unseen, unfortgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)
"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions"
Voltaire(1694-1778)
Photography by Patrick Demarchelier
"I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it"
Christy Turlington(b. 1969)
"You don't learn
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty two
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversionsor variety in company, if she can be amused by an author in her closet"
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(1689-1762)
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refugefrom almost all of life's miseries"
W. Somerset Maugham(1874-1975)
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