Style Quotes
These are some of the best 'Style' quotations and sayings.
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A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous.
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A man's style is nearly as much a part of himself as his face, or figure, or the throbbing of his pulse; in short, as any part of his being which is subjected to the action of his will.
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A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. - I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can measure.
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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root.
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Any style formed in imitation of some model must be affected and straight-laced.
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Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid looks most profound.
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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
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He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
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He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
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I hate a style that is wholly flat and regular, that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
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If a man really has an idea he can communicate it; and if he has a clear one, he will communicate it clearly.
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If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
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If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them.
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In what he leaves unsaid I discover a master of style.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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It is equally true of the pen as the pencil, that what is drawn from life and the heart alone bears the impress of immortality.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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