Style Matters Quotes

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Fashion is not frivolous.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.

The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.