Approved Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed…

— John Mason Good

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

— Lord Chesterfield

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us…

— Anton Webern

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

— Paul Rand

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

— Martin Fowler

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right,…

— Samuel Johnson

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

— Nathan Milstein

“Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.”

— Jonathan Swift