759 Quotes About Style

fiction must be different from reportage; painting from photography. And this difference should be reflected in the language of the work

For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.

Ever since I’d met Edna Parker Watson, I tried to wear suits whenever possible. Among other lessons, that woman had taught me that a suit will always make you look more chic and important than a dress. And not too much jewelry! “A majority of the time,” Edna said, “jewelry is an attempt to cover up a badly chosen or ill-fitting garment.

They [best dressed women] don’t want to look like their daughters. They want their own individual brand of chic. […] The cut and fit must be exactly right, and they are willing to spend hours in the fitting room to make sure of it. They spend money, too. But if any one of them went broke tomorrow she’d rather choose one perfectly cut expensive dress and make it do for years than buy a dozen cheap ones.

It’s better to be happy than well-dressed.

Sensuality is the most expensive taste and luxury in the world.

Every girl should have at least two things, fun and fashion.

It is therefore necessary that writers everywhere should see it as their ultimate duty to preserve artfulness of language by couching audacious prose.

But deadpan cool has long since thinned into a manner. Its reflexive irony is now more or less the house style of late capitalism.