"My darling love, I think you have a fundamental misconception about what it means to be a great dandy. I have better taste than anyone else so I don't care what anyone else thinks about anything. I am..."
- Miranda Neville
"He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneu..."
- Anthony Powell
"For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected."
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow."
- Sebastian Horsley
"What did she think she understood about him? His gorgeous appearance was only the first layer, yet it was one that she savored now as if she had been hungry for it all of her life. Α wealth of lace an..."
- Julia Ross