A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.3.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

-Sandys, George
  Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence† We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

-Stevens, Brooks
Quoted inVance Packard TheWaste Makers (1960), ch.6.This is thought to be the first use of the phrase'planned obsolescence'.

An old-fashioned Virginia fox hunt, gentlemen.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  Comment on the skirmish at Princeton, 3 Jan. Attributed.

Nothing isso dangerous as being too modern.One isapt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Lord Markby. An Ideal Husband, act 2.