Degree Style Dignity

Famous quotes containing the words degree, style and/or dignity:

“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of “quaint,” and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)