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We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
Every human act - no matter how large or how small - is a direct expression of
a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.
His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He
It's the rare person whose outside matches up with who they are inside.
His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.
To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.
A precocious mistress of the long look, the sustained smile, the private voice and the delicate touch, devices of generations
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Romantic Egoist
Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head ... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.
AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times?
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
...and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting
the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
I'm a mild-mannered person.
People of character don't allow the environment to dictate their style.
Conduct, not speech, flowery
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.
Stubborn, snarly male.
A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply fineness of nature.
I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
Style is the image of character.
As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny.
Style is character.
A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.
incurable lover of the grotesque
Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.
He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland - even to him - when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.
the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.
I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.
Strikingly tall, broad, a thick head of silky chestnut hair, olive skin and beautiful almond shaped eyes. His was a strong face, masculine, powerful. I disliked it greatly.
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.
beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy.
He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t
Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
My style is ambiguous and lucid.
Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
The personality is a work of art.
Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.
The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.
A lifelong disciple of Lord Chesterfield's maxim that a gentleman was free to do anything he pleased as long as he did it with style.
I lack," said Laurent, "the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with," you could see him pushing the words out, "a lover."
"You lack the easy mannerisms that are usually shared with anyone," said Damen.
insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical
is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.
outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.
I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people.
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."
[I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
Reddish-brown hair worn shaggy, as if he simply didn't care about style. Which was baffling. Really, what sort of educated man didn't care about style?
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are
Style is the essence of man
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
responsible, reserved, conservative, grounded, perfectionist, analytical
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ...
Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.
Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial - but knows that it isn't. 3.
In the youth of middle age
square-shouldered, stocky, decisive, blatantly virile
...
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser
that's my nature.
She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.