Quotes About Foppery

Women must not encourage Fops and Fools. They must encourage Men of Sense only. And it is well said. But what will they do, if their lot be cast only among Foplings? If the Men of Sense do not offer themselves? And pray, may I not ask, if the taste of the age, among the men, is not Dress, Equipage, and Foppery? Is the cultivation of the mind any part of their study? The men, in short, are sunk, my dear; and the women but barely swim.

he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut...there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve

in fact foppery looks to have German origins, while fond, still then commonly used as a somewhat poetic equivalent for 'silly', may be from the Norse, related for instance to the modern Icelandic fáni, which means someone who emptily swaggers. Another

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

forgotten? Yes, a schism Nurtured by foppery and barbarism, Made great Apollo blush for this his land.