Jane Austen Quotes, Style Quotes

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering.

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It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

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Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

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If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

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