style Quotes

“Form will determine the nature of content.”

“Imitating another style is simply a sham.”

“Every young geisha may be proud of her hairstyle at first, but she comes to hate it within three or four days.”

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was!

“Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.”

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

“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he’s got style...”

“‘Nice polka dots,’ I say. He smiles. ‘Nice Labradors.’ I mean, he’s cute, so I’ll let it slide, but the dogs on my pants are clearly golden retrievers.”

“Somehow, of late, I had got into the way of involuntarily using this word ‘prefer’ upon all sorts of not exactly suitable occasions. And I trembled to think that my contact with the scrivener had already and seriously affected me in a mental way. And what further and deeper aberration might it not yet produce?”

“She has to try on everything.”

″ ‘Lawks!’ Jemmy thought. Hadn’t the prince run away in royal style! He had even brought a china plate, a silver spoon and a silver knife for himself.”