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Quotes About Style

I do high heels better post-caffeine.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?
~ Lisa Scottoline
Custom curtains made with a lovely Schumacher fabric that she'd used for the headboard.
~ Lisa Scottoline
She was pretty in the way water is tasty: it does the job, but lacks pizzazz. (Skye on Charlie)
~ Lisi Harrison
That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
She was wearing an old summer dress as a nightgown, but in the mornings it could work as a dress again, if you just tossed a cardigan over it and put on shoes. In this risky manner, she knew, insanity could encroach.
~ Lorrie Moore
She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.
~ Lorrie Moore
Yes," Leslie agreed. "Rondi showed excellent taste by not wearing the hat or the boots. They go so well together.
~ Louis Sachar
Let us be elegant or die
~ Louisa Mary Alcott
but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, for it was made in the likeness of a plump little Chinaman ... Two pretty cups with covers, and a fine scarlet tray, completed the set, and made one long to have a dish of tea, even in Chinese style, without cream or sugar.
~ Louisa May Alcott
you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thoughts of fame and money, and put your heart into it
~ Louisa May Alcott
dear me, let us be elegant or die.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate
~ Louisa May Alcott
Just now it's the fashion to be hideous; to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait-jacket, orange gloves, and clumping, square-toed boots. If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing; but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
~ Louisa May Alcott
you have found your style at last. You wrote with no thought of fame or money, and put your heart into it, my daughter; you have had the bitter, now comes the sweet;
~ Louisa May Alcott
Washington instinctively trod the fine line between showiness and austerity, defining a characteristic style of understated elegance.
~ Ron Chernow
It seemed unfortunate that they were led into such lavish style.
~ Ron Chernow
He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.
~ Ron Chernow
To all questions, Rockefeller responded in this same slow, disconnected style, making his testimony worthless.
~ Ron Chernow
their naturally discreet style made them ideal channels for diplomacy.
~ Ron Chernow
It makes one's hand look so bourgeoise.
~ Ronald Firbank