Style Quotes

“The quintessential French outfit is suitable for any time or place. It is made up of timeless classics: a good-quality blazer, a simple dress, classic jeans, smart, comfortable shoes, and minimal jewellery. The key to dressing like une vraie parisienne is simplicity.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“I'm middle class now", he joked to himself. Even the roaches were of a noble sort, scurrying when he turned on the bathroom light instead of ignoring his presence. He took their modesty as a touch of class.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Plus, every time I tried to say anything about my specific predicament, the curse would activate, driving me back and prompting me to do something monstrous, like wear socks with sandals.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Fashion passes; style remains.”
― Coco Chanel

“For those who prefer a fairy tale to life, a moral: “Reality,” concludes the embittered professor who for reasons unbeknown to himself became a female breast, “has style.”
― Philip Roth, The Breast

“Glory is to God what style is to an artist.

Glory is what God looks like when, for the time being, all you have to look at Him with is a pair of eyes.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes”
― Walt Whitman

“I always tell my students: ‘A style is a means of insisting on something.’ A line of Sontag’s.

Just as, when I first saw La Pedrera, in Barcelona, it struck me more as a belief system than a building, my ignorance of Gaudí being almost total. When we look at familiar things, at familiar people, style recedes, or becomes totally invisible. (Sontag makes the same point about ‘realism’.) But in fact everything has a style — and the same amount of it, even if we value or interpret each iteration differently.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

“The second thing Elwood noticed was the boy's eerie sense of self. The mess hall was loud with the rumble and roil of juvenile activity, but this boy bobbed in his own pocket of calm. Over time, Elwood saw that he was always simultaneously at home in whatever scene he found himself and also seemed like he shouldn't have been there; inside and above at the same time; a part and apart.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Outside the ring Griff made a hobby of terrorising the weaker boys, the boys without friends, the weepy ones. Inside the ring his prey stepped right up so he didn't waste time hunting. Like an electric toaster or an automated washing machine, boxing was a modern convenience that made life easier.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Style is the difference between a circle and the way you draw it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Conformity teaches us the value of our precious worth.”
― Aida Mandic, Watch For The Exit

“Who dresses you in the morning? Don't have that dilemma, whatever I passed out in the night before is what I wear to work.”
― Kevin Kolenda

“The circular style of the universe is a lesson what you do in it will have the same reaction or it will be similar.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Where should one use perfume? - asked a young woman
Wherever one wants to be kissed. - I replied”
― Coco Chanel

“When you fallen if the world turns its back on you, take it normally because the world is the outside style.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Live Hawaiian style!”
― Steven Magee

“It was something of a stylistic experiment, pushing the time-tested vaporwave aesthetic more toward stained glass and dark wood.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“I am in no rush, I am already ahead of you.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Always be fuckable: when standing in line at the bakery on a Sunday morning, buying champagne in the middle of the night, or even picking the kids up from school. You never know.”
― Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“Imperfection is the mother of style”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“This is just the way that I draw; it's how I've always drawn. [...] I think of it like handwriting.”
― Roz Chast, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

“It took only five minutes for Tessa to realize that she had found her painting style. The brush glided over the surface of the canvas, the sable hairs leaving delicate marks in the Naples yellow, letting light shine through from underneath. The color slipped on like a veil over the grisaille, revealing just enough gray to make it look like flesh.”
― Helen Maryles Shankman, The Color of Light

“The allure of black fashion is undeniable - it’s versatile, elegant, and effortlessly stylish. Whether you’re looking for a sophisticated outfit for a formal event or a casual look for a day out, black fashion staples are the perfect choice.”
― Olena Luggassi, In the Shadows: The Allure and Mystery of Black: the Secrets of Designing

“I have this anti-commercialism about me -- I work with clients and get involved with their commercial needs, but it plays against my grain when it comes to my own situation. I'm not into style; I'm against style.”
― Frank Gehry, Architecture of Frank Gehry

“Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the mater, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first was the fact that the most iconic aspects of his work were inspired by his imperfections. Because he was losing his hair, hats became an integral part of his pageantry. His shoulders were rounded, giving rise to his signature slouch. He didn't like his hands, so gloves made their way into his numbers. He was pigeon-toed and couldn't achieve the kind of turnout expected in ballet, so he developed a style in which the legs are turned in and the feet point at each other. I was intoxicated by the way he had spun his ‘flaws’ into stylistic gold. It felt like a message for me that my own ‘flaws’ and vulnerabilities might actually be arrows pointing straight to the heart of my power as a performer, and – dare I say – my artistry.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Lenora was a Fosse girl. She had learned from the master, the actual master himself. Fosse was a galvanizing choreographer, who fascinated and spoke directly to me for a range of reasons. The first was the fact that the most iconic aspects of his work were inspired by his imperfections. Because he was losing his hair, hats became an integral part of his pageantry. His shoulders were rounded, giving rise to his signature slouch. He didn't like his hands, so gloves made their way into his numbers. He was pigeon-toed and couldn't achieve the kind of turnout expected in ballet, so he developed a style in which the legs are turned in and the feet point at each other. I was intoxicated by the way he had spun his ‘flaws’ into stylistic gold. It felt like a message for me that my own ‘flaws’ and vulnerabilities might actually be arrows pointing straight to the heart of my power as a performer, and – dare I say – my artistry.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Every fashion is the layer of early idea and every style become the trend of history.”
― KH Muawia Tariq

“It is style that makes us believe in a thing - nothing but style. Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Mrs. Assheton’s house in Sussex Square, Brighton, was appointed with that finish of smooth stateliness which robs stateliness of its formality, and conceals the amount of trouble and personal attention which has, originally in any case, been spent on the production of the smoothness.”
― Edward Frederic Benson