Dandyism Quotes

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. (George Meredith)
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Dandyism is a variety of genius. View quote
William Hazlitt
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. View quote
Sebastian Horsley
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. View quote
Sebastian Horsley
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture. View quote
Susan Sontag