Style Quotes - Page 6

• Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Models, Affected

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• Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

  Alexander Smith

  Literature, Immortal

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

  Edmund Burke

  Sublime, Easy, Natural

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• A temperate style is alone classical.

  Joseph Joubert

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

  Whit Burnett

  Writing, Self, Expression

  Hallie Southgate Burnett, Whit Burnett (1979). “Fiction Writer's Handbook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

  Lexa Doig

  Men, Self, Sense Of Self

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• The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.

  Frances Osborne

  Brain, Errands, Dry

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• Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Writing, Light

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.116

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• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Execution, Done

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Order, Perfection

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.9

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• When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Two, Firsts

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.114

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• To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Together, Body, Humans

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, September 1970.

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• In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Fashion, Difficult Times, Difficulty

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• Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Window, Obscure

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• Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Maturity, Roots, Sound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164

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• Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Attitude, Reflection, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Icons, Clothes

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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• The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

  Cecil Beaton

  Fashion, Fashionable, Fashionable Clothes

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• Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

  Andre Maurois

  Hands, Definitions, Hallmark

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Desperate Situations, Unity

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• How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, High Heels, Shoes

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• Elegance is elimination.

  Cristobal Balenciaga

  Fashion, Clothes, Taste

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