Style Matters Quotes

#1. It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

Douglas Crockford

#2. However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

#3. Nothing on earth really matters, there is nothing to fear, and death is but a question of style, a mere literary device, a musical resolution.

Vladimir Nabokov

#4. The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Rebecca Solnit

#7. In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Merrick Rosenberg

#8. I think you can talk forever about style, technique and beautiful prose, but surely in the final analysis one thing matters above all else - is it a page-turner?

Jamie Holoran

#9. Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down to what matters. Let's have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest covering of small talk.

Rosamund Lupton

#10. We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

Kevin Costner

#11. Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Jules Renard

#12. In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Oscar Wilde

#13. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. They've got, she spat the word, 'style. Beauty. Grace. That's what matters. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.

Terry Pratchett

#15. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

Stefano Gabbana