Style Quotes

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

~ Steven Pinker

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

~ Jude Deveraux

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

~ Jim Chapson

Integrity never goes out of style.

~ Jim George

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It’s not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence

~ Martin Amis

Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

~ Amit Kalantri

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

~ Amit Kalantri

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

~ Debasish Mridha

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

~ Béatrice Peltre

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

~ C. Joybell C.

Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for a living. Until poetry connects with the working man, it’s not going to sell; it’s not going to be of value.

~ Harley King

Sometimes people are often confused between attitude and style. Nevermind, I'm Awesome.

~ Yugesh Ralli

MY ⓈⓉⓎⓁⒺ is,My Presentation➟ &My Attituⅾe is,Your Reflection

~ Fahad Rashiq

Posture reflects your attitude.

~ Cindy Ann Peterson

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

~ Adolf Loos

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

~ Harold Bloom

Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

~ H.w. Brands

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

~ George Pólya

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The secret to style is a beautiful smile.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.

~ Eugene Manlove Rhodes

When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

~ Lauren Beukes

My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

~ Anna Johnson

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

~ Booth Tarkington

Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all the fashion-challenged sailors. 'I feel sorry for them, of course, but I do not see why that observation should alter my current extremely stylish course of action.

~ Cassandra Clare

Dressed to strip?’'You know—expensive clothes that feel good in your hands while you take them off him.

~ Roberta Pearce

You are one of the few successful persons I know.Me? Why?You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well.But I don't really do much of anything.And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success.By not giving a damn? But I do, you know.Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

~ Roger Zelazny

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

~ Elmore Leonard

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

~ Yves Saint-Laurent

Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.

~ Clinton Kelly

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

~ Isabel Wolff

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

~ Oscar Wilde

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

~ Nina García

When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to

~ Madeleine Vionnet

It's not revealing, it's informative.

~ Gemma Burgess

If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.

~ Fennel Hudson

What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.

~ Maureen Callahan