Quotes About Style

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

He knew not only WHAT to wear, but HOW to wear it.

Straw Hat Day," Saturday, May 1, when a man could at last break out his summer hats. Men followed this rule.

A boutonniere rested beside each plate. Everyone wore tuxedos. There was not a woman in sight.

The decor of the house was by now legendary, and was fast becoming the model for a style of country home decor that emphasized color, comfort, and lack of formality. Its popularity prompted Mrs. Tree to create a home-design firm around the concept. Her future business partner would later describe her aesthetic as one of "pleasing decay.

Whereas Eloise gravitated toward retro granny chic and was pulled together on a daily basis, I either looked like a high school student who had just rolled out of bed, thrown on leggings, and gone to class, or a full-blown escort. There was no in-between.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle part of my thought.

A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the gift of brilliant brevity, are hard workers, diligent scholars and competent stylists.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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In April, Churchill decided he should try to alter his speaking style, to make it less sonorous and Victorian, to avoid sounding pompous to younger listeners. At sixty, he was an old dog to be learning new oratorical tricks

And what is true manliness—" she tilted her head playfully "—if not class and recklessness blended together in the correct proportions?

Look hot, stay cool, we'd instructed one another; we'd got the stance to match the suits off pat, you stuck your hipbone forward, let your shoulders droop, put all your weight on the one leg.

I've always loved high style in low company.

I've had my best times trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

I only have a certain bag of tricks. And that's why little things, like punctuation, make such a big difference. The dash I've always relied on hugely. I know I use it even in borderline cases, where technically it isn't correct. But it moves me through the initial draft of the text, and I let a lot of my dashes stay.

Might as well wear loafers without socks. Or take out a membership at the Reading Room on the path above the beach—the Reading Room, where the joke was that there wasn't a book in the entire place.

Just because it fits doesn't mean it looks good.

Vincent looked to Justus's ears. "I see you wore those earrings.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!