Quotations relevant to Style
When the heart flies out before the understanding it saves the judgement a world of pains.
Laurence Sterne (A Sentimental Journey).
Laurence Sterne (A Sentimental Journey).
"You do not create style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being."
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
"Le style est l'homme même"
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is living proof that Charles Baudelaire is wrong, but it is a funny one:
The only true death of dandyism is fatherhood.
The only true death of dandyism is fatherhood.
Just think: a pram in the hall!davidhuh wrote:There is living proof that Charles Baudelaire is wrong, but it is a funny one:
The only true death of dandyism is fatherhood.
Simon Raven.
Quite coincidentally:
'Quality is no accident. It is the result of intelligent effort.'
John Ruskin; taken up, as the company slogan, by Sir Thomas Lipton, of Lipton teas.
'Quality is no accident. It is the result of intelligent effort.'
John Ruskin; taken up, as the company slogan, by Sir Thomas Lipton, of Lipton teas.
Not even Matthew could have had this vision...
Surely, though, Saintly apparitions are different and, as they say, 'a prophet is never recognized in his own country'. However the top half looks as though it is going for a picnic in a (mercifully) isolated location and the lower half looks as though it is about to pull its trousers and shoes on.Costi wrote:Not even Matthew could have had this vision...
Matt. 7:16
Costi - that's really strange as I am just proof-reading a piece that refers to that, in relation to a Christian missionary!
Pleading guilty to mind reading
That's quite all right: just so long as you don't start wearing just your underpants, lederhosen, bedsocks or slippers in the street:Costi wrote:Pleading guilty to mind reading
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQkZD3F2EQ
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