"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics." - George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

"A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey." - AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
- ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism

"You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts

"A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months." - OSCAR WILDE, quoted in Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde