Famous quotes containing the word style:
“The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenicealthough, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.”
—Karl Kraus (18741936)
“Style is the man himself.
[Le style cest lhomme même.]”
—Leclerc, George-Louis Buffon, Comte De (17071788)
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