Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of read more

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to read more

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.