Style Quotes

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

Rock, Stand, Matters

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Living, Individual

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

Important, Gift, Emotions

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel

Fashion, Same, Remains

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

Yourself, Others, Unique

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Mind, Saying

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

True, Stay, Original

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

Giving, Knowing

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

God, Real, Trying

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair

Life, Live, Enough

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Suzanne Vega

Humor, Smart, Character

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Decision, Thought

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Voltaire

Work, Nothing, Place

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

Down, Country, Small

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Once, Literature

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.
Steve Prefontaine

Music, Beautiful, Words

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo

Subject, Substance, Surface

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, May, Content

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Simplicity, Excellence

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
Kobe Bryant

Everyone, Personal, Values

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

Teacher, Destroy, Honors

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

Give, Thoughts, Against

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Person, Find, Natural

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

Good, Saying, While

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy

Opinion, Whatever, Happens

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

Eternal, Fade, Fashions

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

Time, Same, Knew

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
Fran Lebowitz

Public, General, Crowd

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts

God, Different, Universe

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Simplicity, Excellence

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