Joseph Joubert Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• A temperate style is alone classical.

  Joseph Joubert

  Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• 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, Style, Half

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• 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”

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

  Joseph Joubert

  Plato, Swans, Style

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Character, Style, Letters

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

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