
“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”
Source: Amphigorey
“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”
Source: Amphigorey
“His fashion is passion, sincere and intense, —
His impulse is simple and true”
Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: His fashion is passion, sincere and intense, —
His impulse is simple and true;
Yet temper'd by judgment, and taught by good sense,
And cordial with me and with you.
Source:"Defence and Illustration of Classical Construction," Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris, Sept. 15, 1952).
Cited in: Fayek S. Hourani, Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings https://books.google.nl/books?id=ASN8DVH2AgYC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22Beauty+is+composed+of+an+eternal,+invariable+element+whose+quantity+is+extremely+difficult+to+determine%22&source=bl&ots=JwrnY2eVbL&sig=1XbUReB25BMZsF5sXNTPqHqhwJU&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMjZS2rJ_LAhUqGZoKHfIWBvMQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=%22Beauty%20is%20composed%20of%20an%20eternal%2C%20invariable%20element%20whose%20quantity%20is%20extremely%20difficult%20to%20determine%22&f=false, 2012, p. 169
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
The Passions and the Interests (1977) Part I. "How the Interests were Called Upon to Counteract the Passions".
Source: First Things, Last Things (1971), Ch. 8 "Thoughts on the Present"