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    The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or
    addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties
    are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but
    the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon,
    or a didactic work.
    - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things

by Jean Cocteau Found in: Style Quotes,
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And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge
of a great work, for an author read more

And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge
of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but
his style.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Style Quotes,
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.

by Hosea Ballou Found in: Style Quotes,
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

by Orson Welles Found in: Style Quotes,
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Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all read more

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very
thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly
as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the
throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is
at least subjected to the action of the will.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Style Quotes,
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit read more

Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent as more suitable;
A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,
Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Style Quotes,
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The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]

The style is the man.
[Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]

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For style beyond the genius never dares.
[Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]

For style beyond the genius never dares.
[Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]

by Francesco Petrarch Found in: Style Quotes,
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

by Gore Vidal Found in: Style Quotes,
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