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• One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes You Wear, Black

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• To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

  Susan Sontag

  Attitude, Introducing

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Posterity

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• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Rags, Dresses, Dirt

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Book, Writing

  Ezra Pound (1918). “Pavannes and Divisions”

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• There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Acceptable

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• For style beyond the genius never dares.

  Petrarch

  Genius, Dare

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, Definitions

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• Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Fashion, Couture

  "Architectural Digest" Magazine, (p. 30), September 1994.

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• The style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Men, He Man

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Sake, Speak

  Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.579

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• The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

  Joseph Joubert

  Reflection, Light, Wings

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

  Joseph Joubert

  Plato, Swans, Gold

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Eye, Audience, Prose

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• I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

  Horace Walpole

  Men, Effort, Looks

  Horace Walpole (1848). “Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith”, p.538

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• The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Half, Certain

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Memories, Wish

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fashion, Universal, Fashion And Art

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• Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.

  Nina Garcia

  Beautiful, Fun, Knowing

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• Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

  RuPaul

  Expression, Joie De Vivre, Force

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• Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Gentleman, Rags

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.10

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

  Henri Rousseau

  Imagine, Labour

  Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books

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• I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Land, Competition

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