Style Quotes

3044 Style quotes by 2144 unique authors

There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to… — Elwyn Brooks White
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the… — Mark Twain
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. — Aristotle
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so. — Anatole France
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's… — Patricia Lee Gauch
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to… — William Shenstone
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. — W. Somerset Maugham
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. — George Orwell
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live… — Ken Burns
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear… — Garry Kasparov
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than… — Max Euwe
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth… — Unknown Author
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. — Joe Satriani
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is chosen and printed… — Alexey Brodovitch
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian — Samuel Reshevsky
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet,… — Unknown Author
Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre. — Perry Groves

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