Top 100 Great Style Quotes
#1. The principle of the Inquisition was murderous ... The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
Lord Acton
#3. I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.
Drew Barrymore
#4. What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look beautiful. No matter what they're wearing, no matter if they're inappropriately dressed, no matter if their hair's not really done right, eyebrows haven't been tweezed.
Soledad O'Brien
#6. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.
John Kennedy Toole
#7. I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
Josephine De La Baume
#8. I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style; she's my biggest influence.
Isabelle Fuhrman
#9. I love playing music, so I think the whole John Varvatos look is kind of cool. I think he has a great style.
Henrik Lundqvist
#10. Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish
Michael Kors
#12. I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.
Hamish Bowles
#13. Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.
Kenneth Clark
#14. I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
Irwin Shaw
#15. Being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.
Elizabeth Hawes
#16. The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#17. Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
#18. You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.
Billy Ray Cyrus
#19. My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
#20. Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?
Franz Grillparzer
#21. I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
Ken Burns
#22. Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
Elvis Stojko
#23. The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.
Conrad Williams
#24. The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson
#25. Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.
Trey Songz
#26. We may have been crazed, strange and entirely too eager to find new things to have sex with - but we went out to preserve great chunks of this planet's cultures and we damned well did it with some style
Warren Ellis
#27. I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens ... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.
Woodrow Wilson
#28. Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous ... They're heavy like Soundgarden or Zeppelin with killer female vocals, but with their own unique style.
Jack Endino
#29. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
#31. Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
Cameron Boyce
#32. I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
Aly Raisman
#33. H&M makes it easy for a guy to look great every single day and create a personal style. Their men's collection always gives me a choice of how I want to dress, whether it be sharp in a suit and polo-neck, or more relaxed in jeans and a tweed jacket.
Joel Kinnaman
#34. I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.
Jude Law
#35. My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
Joni Mitchell
#36. Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Iris Apfel
#37. One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a cool opportunity to express, not only your personal style, but also your faith and what you believe in and your values.
Nick Goepper
#38. Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
Benjamin Millepied
#40. It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.
Devon Bostick
#41. 61 ULTIMATUMS Great Alamance Camp May 16th 1771 To the People now Assembled in Arms, who Style themselves Regulators In Answer to your Petition, I am to acquaint you that I have ever been attentive to the true Interest of this Country, and to that of every Individual residing
Diana Gabaldon
#42. I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.
Paul Weller
#43. I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.
Paul Gauguin
#44. What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line.
David Duchovny
#45. If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.
Leo Steinberg
#46. When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
Boris Spassky
#47. I am called a great swordsman because I invented a lethal style; but who is greater, the creator of a killing form - or the master of the classic form?"
"I'm very flattered that you would consider me a master but really - "
"Not a master. The master.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#48. Style helps distinguish you ... It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside
Michelle Obama
#49. Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
David Lauren
#50. Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#51. Edie Sedgwick, Debbie Harry, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Obama, and my friend Eugenie Niarchos each have their own great sense of style.
Elisabeth Von Thurn Und Taxis
#52. My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
Bella Hadid
#53. The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.
George Mason
#54. In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.
Vasily Smyslov
#55. The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair
#56. The thing I most love and hate about fashion is that it changes all the time. But I don't think I or anyone else can singlehandedly get rid of hooker style. Popular taste isn't great by definition. It's just popular.
Marc Jacobs
#57. Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#58. I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#59. Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
Jonny Greenwood
#60. Lately, I've been playing very fashion-forward, popular girls, which is great because it's led me to things like this Nintendo 3DS 'Style Savvy' campaign. It'd be fun to do something a bit dorkier - or quirkier!
Sarah Hyland
#61. We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Henri Rousseau
#62. Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.
Paul Klee
#63. It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern
#64. It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
Andre Leon Talley
#65. The British invented the classic look. Men's apparel was created in London, the great English style. You have to respect this country's suits, shirts, shoes, luggage.
Mickey Drexler
#66. Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.
Alan King
#67. That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.
Chris Paul
#68. It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.
Sherrie Levine
#69. Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.
Djibril Cisse
#70. 'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.
John Lennon
#71. As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.
Brad Goreski
#72. I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth
#73. There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.
Ozzy Osbourne
#74. When you study great teachers ... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
William Glasser
#75. I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it.
Terry Pratchett
#76. Every woman is born with her own sense of style and idea of beauty. To stifle that is a sin as great as snuffing out a blossoming bud, a one-of-a-kind flower will never bloom again.
Toni Sorenson
#77. Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
#78. Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
Thornton Wilder
#79. The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.
Havelock Ellis
#80. Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.
Isaac Mizrahi
#81. I'm an actor/singer who moves well ... sometimes. I'm actually a great mover but not every style fits my body and a dance call back is my worst nightmare.
Erica Schroeder
#82. Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.
Paul Oakenfold
#83. The girl at Great Cuts asked him what style he wanted, and he told her that he wanted hair like Morrissey.
Rainbow Rowell
#84. It is really amazing to be able to do cinematic, big feature style film music on a weekly basis and do it in LA, on a big scoring stage, on a studio lot, and do it with the right players and make it sound great.
Christopher Lennertz
#85. London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.
Jessica Hart
#86. When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.
Misha Collins
#87. Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.
Jane Birkin
#88. One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.
Neil Genzlinger
#89. When it comes to other celebrity brands, I think a lot of people do a great job, but it can't be all about them. Everybody doesn't want to just look like the celebrity, because they can't. They just want one element of that style.
Jessica Simpson
#90. I'm a big Ralph Lauren girl, but I love vintage clothing. I like the whole western jeans and boots style. I love vintage T-shirts and flannels, and there's nothing like a great vintage sweatshirt.
Lecy Goranson
#91. Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.
George Henry Lewes
#92. After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Isaac D'Israeli
#93. Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Ngaio Marsh
#95. The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style.
Michael Pollan
#96. Whether it's something with a chunkier heel or a moto style, you need a great pair of boots.
Brad Goreski
#97. Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.
Mark Twain
#98. I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it ...
Michael Jackson
#99. There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.
Isabella Rossellini
#100. have seen how the fear of becoming subject to God's revenge and punishment has paralyzed the mental and emotional lives of many people, independently of their age, religion, or life-style. This paralyzing fear of God is one of the great human tragedies.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
