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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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Roy Lichtenstein

PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

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'To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses deligh

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

5.0 · 35 votes · 149 reads

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

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CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

3.9 · 53 votes · 103 reads

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I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.7 · 32 votes

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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Ernest Hemingway

WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

3.5 · 23 votes

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In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

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NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

4.4 · 32 votes · 123 reads

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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the Writerthinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

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PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

5.0 · 34 votes

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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

3.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

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AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

4.4 · 39 votes

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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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W. Somerset Maugham

WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

3.7 · 26 votes

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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,
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
3.9 · 11 votes · 107 reads
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century
3.0 · 35 votes · 95 reads
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
WriterIrish1667 · 17th century
3.1 · 19 votes · 168 reads
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body, both go together, they can't be separated.
Jean-Luc Godard
AuthorFrench1930 · 20th century
3.5 · 30 votes · 41 reads
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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
PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century
3.0 · 59 votes · 40 reads
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the se
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.1 · 5 votes · 50 reads
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