Clarity Quote by Luc Delahaye

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

— Mason Cooley

Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he…

— Randall Jarrell

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

“Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style.”

— Bernard Lewis

It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading…

— Louise Wilson

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

— Susan Sontag

Style is the way we speak to the world without words.

— Bobbie Thomas

Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the…

— Mark Doty

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to…

— Thomas Sprat

I am against the notion of style in itself

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“I submit that style, too, is an answer to a common want; but not so much to formulated problems as to felt difficulties of…

— Jacques Barzun