Being Quote by Christopher Plummer

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

— Rick Moody

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

— Vera Wang

“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.”

— John Carey

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

— Douglas William Jerrold

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix…

— Nate Berkus

You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods…

— Dorothy Draper

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

— Anonymous

“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled…

— Les Standiford

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the…

— Wallace Stevens

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young…

— Anthony Trollope