Quotes 101 till 120 of 163.
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
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Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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