Shanghai/culture/fashion

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai, culture and/or fashion:

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

“I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being “crucified for an idea”Mthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated—it is probably the idea that European culture ought to survive, that the best qualities of it ought to survive along with whatever cultures, in whatever universality. Against the propaganda of terror and the propaganda of luxury, have you a nice simple answer?”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)