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)

    “If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
    of culture rare,
    You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant
    them everywhere.
    You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
    complicated state of mind,
    The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
    transcendental kind.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)