57 Inspiring And Stylish Quotes

In a world where words wield the power to influence, inspire, and ignite change, finding the right quote at the right time can be a transformative experience. Whether you're seeking motivation on a challenging day or a spark of creativity for your next big project, the perfect quote can provide clarity and encouragement. Dive into our handpicked selection of 57 inspiring and stylish quotes, each chosen for its ability to resonate and inspire. Let these words guide you, uplift you, and add a touch of elegance to your everyday mindset.

1. “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” - Thomas Jefferson

2. “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” - Gore Vidal

4. “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” - Yves Saint Laurent

5. “You can have whatever you want if you dress for it. ” - Edith Head

6. “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...” - J.K. Rowling

7. “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” - Nicole Richie

8. “There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.” - Sir Joshua Reynolds

9. “Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists” - Milan Kundera

10. “Forget about style; worry about results. ” - Bobby Orr

11. “To achieve style, begin by affecting none.” - E.B. White

12. “Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.” - Clinton Kelly

13. “I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.” - Leni Riefenstahl

14. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” - Coco Chanel

15. “If this is your idea of glamour, I'm having second thoughts about letting you make me over.” - Cassandra Clare

16. “I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change” - Karl Lagerfeld

17. “If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.” - Karl Lagerfeld

18. “One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld

19. “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.” - Karl Lagerfeld

20. “My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.” - Anna Johnson

21. “Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?” - Rick Riordan

22. “Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.” - Booth Tarkington

23. “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” - Oscar Wilde

24. “If all you can do is a bad thing, well at least do it with your style!” - Toba Beta

25. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” - Orson Welles

26. “I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.” - Lori R. Lopez

27. “Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.” - Karl Lagerfeld

28. “Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.” - Karl Lagerfeld

29. “Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.” - Karl Lagerfeld

30. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld

31. “[...] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to use the inspired words of a television reporter[...].” - José Saramago

32. “Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.” - Ngaio Marsh

33. “First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.” - Elisabeth Dale

34. “It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a nation or a literature to fresh achievements, are the unknown many whose patient efforts keep the world from running backward; who guard and maintain the ancient values, even if they do not conquer new; whose inconspicuous triumph it is to pass on what they inherited from their fathers, unimpaired and undiminished, to their sons. Enough, for almost all of us, if we can hand on the torch, and not let it down; content to win the affection, if it may be, of a few who know us and to be forgotten when they in their turn have vanished. The destiny of mankind is not governed wholly by its 'stars'.” - F. L. Lucas

35. “Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.” - Oscar Wilde

36. “The most special times in a person's life are not meant to last forever. They're like bubbles rising from a plastic ring dipped into a soapy solution. The soap bubbles rise, with the sun flashing brilliant colors, then bursts into a showery memory mist.” - Julius Thompson

37. “It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!” - C. JoyBell C.

38. “Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!” - C. JoyBell C.

39. “Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there.” - C. JoyBell C.

40. “The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.” - George Polya

41. “What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...""What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh."Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.""A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.” - P.D. James

42. “People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.” - Hans Hofmann

43. “From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.” - Nina Garcia

44. “... look treasured” - Treasure Stitches

45. “Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?” - Ron Sider

46. “Style, after all, is a kind of humor,Something truly beneath contempt...” - Larry Levis

47. “[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that appear to have been hammered out by the village blacksmith in a state of intoxication; the minute you get the easy touch of the real craftsman with centuries of civilisation behind him, you get literature.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

48. “fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.” - Treasure Stitches

49. “A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a half and six bodies. The pressure it applied to women's bodies averaged twenty-one pounds but could reach as high as eighty-eight pounds. Tight-lacing was thus akin to crushing oneself slowly from all sides. As a harsh critic of the corset noted, 'It is evident, physiologically, that air is the pabulum of life, and that the effects of a tight cord round the neck and of tight-lacing only differ in degree.... for the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays is in many cases to wither, to waste and to die.” - Joshua Zeitz

50. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.” - Roger Scruton

51. “The most durable thing in writing isstyle. It is a projection of personality and you haveto have a personality before you can project it. Itis the product of emotion and perception.” - Raymond Chandler

52. “Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.” - Nina Garcia

53. “While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.” - Mary Kay Ash

54. “Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.” - Isaac Mizrahi

55. “You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.” - Jude Deveraux

56. “And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)” - Kurt Vonnegut

57. “... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic connections with others and eager to inflict as much pain as is compatible with a thin veneer of politeness. Whereas Blair judged the Addisonian sentence as a completely autonomous unit, Austen judges the sentence as the product of a pre-existing moral agent. What counts is the sentence's ability to reveal that agent, not to enshrine a free-standing morsel of truth.Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, in contrast, features a quite different practice of the sentence, including an odd form of punctation ... The dashes in Mr Darcy's letter transform the typographical sentence by physically making each sentence continuous with the next one. ... The dashes insist that each sentence is not self-sufficient but belongs to a larger macrostructure. Most of Mr Darcy's justification consists not of organised arguments like those of Mr Collins but of narrative. ... The letter's totality exists not in the typographical sentence but in the described event.” - Andrew Elfenbein