Style Quotes

• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Way

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Fashion, Successful, Unique

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• Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

  Rachel Zoe

  Inspiring, Fashion, Attitude

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

  Edna Woolman Chase

  Fashion, Appearance, Clothing Style

  Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

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• Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.

  Nina Garcia

  Life Changing, Expression, Dresses

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• Fashions fade, style is eternal.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Hair, Clothes

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• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Trends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Magic, Gold, Wands

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• Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

  Andy Warhol

  Fashion, Reason, Painter

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• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Fashion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

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• Style is the perfection of a point of view.

  Richard Eberhart

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Richard Eberhart (1965). “Selected poems, 1930-1965”

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• Style is the image of character.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Character

  Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1796). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.1

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• Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Memorable

  FaceBook post by Oscar de la Renta from Oct 11, 2010

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• I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

  Pierre Cardin

  Blue, Ties, Black

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Needs

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• Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

  William Friedkin

  Halloween, Important, Directors

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• Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Mind

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2639, Delphi Classics

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• Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fashion, Art, Dull

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• What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.

  Jim Rowe

  Wise, Artist, Thinking

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• Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Inspiration, Looks

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• Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

  William Battie

  Running, Fashion, Looks

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• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.351, Vintage

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