James Northcote Quote

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.


Quoted by William Hazlitt in Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (1830)


Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it.