Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Style Quotes

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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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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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer.

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For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.

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I've always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

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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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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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

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From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.

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Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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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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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Personality Quotes , Style Quotes

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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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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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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