Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
A temperate style is alone classical.
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.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.
Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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.
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
Elegance is elimination.
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