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Style Quotes
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And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
For style beyond the genius never dares. (Quote by - Francesco Petrarch)
Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style. (Quote by - Baron Grimm)
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. (Quote by - Paul Klee)
Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. (Quote by - Edna W. Chase)
Obscurity is the realm of error. (Quote by - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues)
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. (Quote by - Willem De Kooning)
Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. (Quote by - Peter Mckay)
The style is the man. (Quote by - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)
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. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. (Quote by - Renata Adler)