Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Witty Quotes, Style Quotes

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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

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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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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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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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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

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