Style Quotes

Style never speaks, but somehow is always saying something.

~ Mircea Popister

Like fashion, torture comes in a variety of styles.

~ James Marshall Smith

And again and again, why, oh why, Joe Rosenthal, were you so surprised when skirts got long and waists natural? For three long years it had been coming. It was a style, Mr. Rosenthal. Style is never unpredictable. But Rosenthal and Levine are not occupied with style. They believe that everything changes twice a year and they want it to. Otherwise people wouldn't have to buy so many clothes. Nor are the manufacturers occupied with quality because it wears and makes future buying unnecessary. They are not concerned with whether clothes are useful or beautiful or functional. That, apparently, is not a part of their job.

~ Elizabeth Hawes

After all, the butt of Fashion's dirtiest jokes is the public. The present American boast, that all women can be beautifully dressed if they choose, has been so clearly stated in so many ways for so long a time, that a large number of American women believe themselves to be beautifully dressed who are actually horrors to behold. Take those $10.75 copies of the dresses worn by the Duchess of Windsor in the summer of 1937. You could tell by the look on the faces of the American girls who wore them that they really felt beguiling enough to snatch off a Duke because they had a modified silhouette corresponding to that of a Duchess. The actual dress, stinted on material, cheaply imitated as to print design, bad in color and ill-fitting, was a horror to behold. You may say, if the girl feels like a Duchess, what more do you ask? I say, she looks to me like the worst mass-pro- duced imitation of a Duchess I can imagine, and it just isn't pretty.

~ Elizabeth Hawes

The bedlamite little hats in which American women have tried to out-lunatic each other for the past four years prove conclusively we don't dress to please anyone. We're just docile sheep who accept what's given us.

~ Beatrice Fairfax

To express oneself fluently involves more than simply speaking the language properly. It includes inflection, voice, posture, gestures, and clothing. All of these elements add up to an individual’s personal expression. They are the elements of style.

~ Kate Betts

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

~ Criss Jami

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

~ Chris Campanioni

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

~ Stacy London

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

~ Lilly Pulitzer

As long as you wear clothes you love, which suit your body and your personality, it won’t matter if you’re wearing a dress that was in vogue five years ago; you’ll still look amazing. Also, somebody has to START new trends, and that somebody could be you.

~ Rosie Blythe

I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.

~ Emmanuelle Alt

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside.

~ Joseph Roach

I hate physical effort.

~ Emmanuelle Alt

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

~ James Fenimore Cooper

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.

~ Tina Fey

fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.

~ Treasure Stitches

All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.

~ John Jannuzzi

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I can't stop.

~ Shane L. Koyczan

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

~ Ricardo Piglia

Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.

~ Austin Kleon

But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.

~ Sidney Lumet

I am a palette of emotions; I remember how I have cov-eted to be free from the school rules. I look around to see people casually dressed up and walking with an aim maybe to make a better career or just add fame of DU degree like me. The campus is buzzing with freshman and activity. I just hope, these corridors, hallways, and passages don’t see me trip-ping and falling any day. I feel more comfortable standing in between the crowd of people moving. Like nobody is paying any heed. You can be yourself without feeling awkward about anything.

~ Parul Wadhwa

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

~ Mustafa Sultan

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

~ Austin Kleon

I don't know any Baptists who don't want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They'll pretty well put up were [your methods].

~ Richard Hogue

There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it’s in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose. That adjective “precise,” for example, needs unpicking. If a “minimalist” writer describes a table, and a metaphor-ridden adjective-heavy weird fictioneer describes a table, they are very different, but the former is in absolutely no way closer to the material reality than the latter. Both of them are radically different from that reality. They’re just words. A table is a big wooden thing with my tea on it.

~ China Miéville

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

~ Eartha Kitt

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

~ Chris Cornell

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

~ Timothy F. Cahill

A black suit can be classic and timeless and certainly for most occasions. But remember, it's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.

~ John Varvatos

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

~ David Byrne

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

~ Herbie Hancock

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

~ Clarence Thomas

Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

~ Psy