Style is the dress of thoughts …; if your style is homely coarse and vulgar they will appear to as much disadvantage and be as ill received as your person though ever so well-proportioned would if dressed in rags dirt and tatters.
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.
Style is the dress of thoughts …; if your style is homely coarse and vulgar they will appear to as much disadvantage and be as ill received as your person though ever so well-proportioned would if dressed in rags dirt and tatters.
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Style is the man himself.
Unless one is a genius it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Self-plagiarism is style.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted for we thought to see an author and found a man.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.