segunda-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2010

Wit and Wisdom ou a arte de ser dandy...



“One day when I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably dressed I was in a well cut brown suit, a very distinguished-looking man shouted at me, ‘People like you ought to be shot!’”

“The most challenging part to dressing well is knowing how to be elegant while being casual.”

“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”

“To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.”

"...like all dandies, he was happy.”

“Do you think it means nothing to have the right, as you make your entry into a salon, to look down on everybody from the height of your cravat and be privileged to despise the most important man there if his waistcoat is out of fashion?”

“All I want is the best of everything, and there’s very little of that left.”

“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”

“Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.” says Friedrich Nietzsche

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