Voltaire Quotes, Style Quotes, Addresses Quotes

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

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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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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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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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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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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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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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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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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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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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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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. They called that the "fist." St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.

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