George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Style Quotes

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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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

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

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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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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

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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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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

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

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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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