Looking for fresh inspiration to add a touch of style and meaning to your space, social media, or personal projects? We've gathered a curated collection of the top 68 stylish quote ideas that combine elegance and impact. Whether you want to motivate, uplift, or simply express yourself with flair, these quotes are perfect for making a statement that resonates. Dive in and find the perfect words to elevate your creative journey.
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. “That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.” - Walter de la Mare
10. “Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists” - Milan Kundera
11. “Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.” - Audrey Hepburn
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. “When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to” - Madeleine Vionnet
18. “One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld
19. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” - Karl Lagerfeld
20. “The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.” - Karl Lagerfeld
21. “Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.” - Charles Bukowski
22. “These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.” - Lucian of Samosata
23. “I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.” - Isabel Wolff
24. “Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.” - Booth Tarkington
25. “One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” - Oscar Wilde
26. “Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin
27. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn” - Orson Welles
28. “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
29. “Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.” - Lauren Beukes
30. “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
31. “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
32. “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
33. “The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.” - Karl Lagerfeld
34. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld
35. “[...] 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
36. “Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.” - Ngaio Marsh
37. “Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” - Anna Wintour
38. “First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.” - Elisabeth Dale
39. “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
40. “One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.” - Stephen King
41. “Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.” - Oscar Wilde
42. “Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.”Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.”It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman.“I think you’ve really grown into it,” Valkyrie said.“I always thought it was a little shapeless.”Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.” - Derek Landy
43. “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.
44. “I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other people that they ought to love you because you know that you're worth it. The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all too beautiful a thing!” - C. JoyBell C.
45. “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.
46. “Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.” - C. JoyBell C.
47. “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.
48. “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
49. “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
50. “People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.” - Hans Hofmann
51. “From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.” - Nina Garcia
52. “you are what you wear” - Treasure Stitches
53. “Women are extraordinary creatures!” - Roman Payne
54. “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
55. “fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.” - Treasure Stitches
56. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.” - Roger Scruton
57. “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
58. “She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.” - George Orwell
59. “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
60. “Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.” - Nina Garcia
61. “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
62. “Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.” - Isaac Mizrahi
63. “New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.” - Robert Frost
64. “You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!” - Disney
65. “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
66. “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
67. “All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.” - John Jannuzzi
68. “... [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
