"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
— Thomas Jefferson

"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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— Robert Frost

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

"Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists"
— Milan Kundera

"Fashion changes, but style endures."
— Coco Chanel

"Elegance is refusal."
— Coco Chanel

"Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art

Bullfighting can be an art
Boxing can be an art
Loving can be an art
Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.
Or sometimes people give you style
Joan of Arc had style
John the Baptist
Jesus
Socrates
Caesar
García Lorca.

I have met men in jail with style.
I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,
or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me."
— Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else."
— Clinton Kelly

"Forget about style; worry about results. "
— Bobby Orr

"I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me."
— Isabel Wolff (A Vintage Affair)

"Style in painting is the same as in writing, a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
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— Joshua Reynolds

"...it seems that if we are to enjoy anything then we must mot have to think about it, and, conversely, if we are to think about anything, then we mustn't enjoy it."
— Barbara White (in the Preface to Exercises In Style)

"Read lots of books so you don't end up with a $75 haircut sitting on a $10 brain."
— Rose Leaf

"As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader. He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated–if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention. This demand for total triumph leads to the formulation of hopelessly unrealistic goals, and since these goals are not even remotely attainable, failure constantly heightens the paranoid’s sense of frustration. Even partial success leaves him with the same feeling of powerlessness with which he began, and this in turn only strengthens his awareness of the vast and terrifying quality of the enemy he opposes."
— Richard Hofstadter (The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays)

"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. "
— Vladimir Nabokov

"Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"
— Roman Payne (Cities & Countries)

"Style is a habbit but looks are for the gifted"
— Thobani Mngadi

"Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier."
— Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students)

"Good clothes are not a matter of good luck."
— Edith Head (The Dress Doctor: Prescriptions for Style, From A to Z)