STYLE

Related Subjects: Dress, Fashion

1. Style is like happiness. Everyone recognizes it, everyone describes it, but no two people agree as to its exact nature.—HENRY S. CANBY
   

2. Style is the dress of thoughts.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

3. The infallible test of a blameless style: namely, its untranslatableness in words of the same language, without injury to the meaning.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

4. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.—COLERIDGE, Lectures on Shakespeare & Milton
   

5. The style's the man, so books avow;
   The style's the woman, anyhow.—O. W. HOLMES, How the Old Horse Won the Bet
   

6. Whose large style agrees not with the leanness of his purse.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

7. I told him [Degas] about the painter Y., who had come to me in great excitement, exclaiming: "Well, I've found my true style at last!"
   
   Said Degas: "Well, I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death."—A. VOLLARD, Degas
   

8. The whole purport of literature, which is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.—THORNTON WILDER, The Bridge of San Luis Rey