FOP

Related Subjects: Affectation, Courtier, Elegance, Fashion, Snob, Vanity

1. Foppery atones
   For folly, gallantry for ev'ry vice.—COWPER, The Task
   

2. The solemn fop; significant and budge;
   A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.—COWPER, Conversation
   

3. True fops help nature's work, and go to school
   To file and finish God Almighty's fool.—DRYDEN, Men of Mode
   

4. A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery
   Foot-in-the-grave young man!—W. S. GILBERT, Patience
   

5. There's Bardus, a six-foot column of fop,
   A lighthouse without any light atop.—THOMAS HOOD, Miss Kilmansegg
   

6. Nature made ev'ry fop to plague his brother,
   Just as one beauty mortifies another.—POPE, Satires of Dr. John Donne
   

7. A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own
   foe.—Proverb
   

8. He was perfumed like a milliner;
   And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held
   A pouncet-box, which ever and anon
   He gave his nose, and took 't away again.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

9. A beardless boy,
   A cocker'd silken wanton.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
   

10. The weathy curled darlings of our nation.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

11. A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance