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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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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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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All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.

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

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

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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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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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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Style Quotes , Rhythm Quotes

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

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

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

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