culture Quotes

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Every old poem is sacred.

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.