There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.

There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

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.

The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]

The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]

A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in read more

A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

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.

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.