Quotes About Style

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies

You are one of the few successful persons I know. Me? Why? You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well. But I don't really do much of anything. And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success. By not giving a damn? But I do, you know. Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

Aussi, le style est-il toujours un secret[...]

Some of Washington's religious style probably reflected an Enlightenment discomfort with religious dogma, but it also reflected his low-key personal style. He was sober and temperate in all things, distrusted zealotry, and would never have talked of hellfire or damnation. He would have shunned anything, such as communion, that might flaunt his religiosity. He never wanted to make a spectacle of his faith or trade on it as a politician.

its chief draftsman, Morris shrank the original twenty-three articles to seven and wrote the great preamble with its ringing opening, "We the People of the United States." Paying tribute to Morris's craftsmanship, Madison wrote, "The finish given to the style and arrangement fairly belongs to the pen of Mr. Morris.

The decision was partly a question of style.

Such luxury was not their usual style.

A frugal man, John D. followed his accustomed practice of keeping the furnishings, even if the style in this case diverged ludicrously from his own.

pyjamas, all patterned and baggy. Late

wearing beanie hats

He headed onward and found a living area and looked at a sofa. A big old thing. Three-seater, easy. Plus extravagant curlicued arms. Long enough.

been present as Lester's talks unfolded, so that you can be as open as possible to his deepest message. Lester came to this unique communication style for several reasons. His realization came quickly and

Even a paperback printed on acidic paper, whose pages have yellowed ten years on, can still be read, no matter how badly the spine is cracked or how inflated it's become from being dropped in the bathtub. The pages might separate from the spine, but a rubber band can keep them together. You may loan a book to your circle of closest friends, but shoes are another matter. A great book will never go out of style - books go with every outfit.

noticed, had powdered hair that curled all

This style of literature was called Nonsense and Carroll was universally acknowledged to be its undisputed master.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

just a pied-à-terre that he uses for business entertaining, but it's tastefully done in wall-to-wall money. And the colors are smart—in a ghastly way. I've used Eggplant, Spinach, and Overripe Melon.

We designed the house to go with her looks.

Being happy never goes out of style

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.