Dandyism Quotes

• Dandyism is a species of genius.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Species

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

  Max Beerbohm

  Fashion, Body, Limits

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books

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• Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

  Susan Sontag

  Mass Culture, Age, Matter

  Susan Sontag (1983). "A Susan Sontag reader", Vintage

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• El cinismo es dandismo intelectual.

  George Meredith

  Intellectual, Cynicism

  El egoísta' (1879) cap. 7

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• Dandyism is a variety of genius.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Variety

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• These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

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• Un cierto tipo de rico aquejado de los síntomas del dandismo moral llega tarde o temprano a la conclusión de que no basta con hacer dinero. Se siente obligado a tener opiniones, a defender causas y elegir presidentes, a explicar a un mundo tembloroso cómo y por qué el mundo se ha equivocado.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dinero, Hombres, Opiniones

  "Dinero y clase en América: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion", de Lewis H. Lapham, 1989.

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• We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

  Robert Adam

  Men, Excess, Coquetry

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• Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Neurosis, Oscars, Stuff

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

  Kate Spade

  Aphrodisiac, Speech, Cynicism

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