Cyril Joad Quotes

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

I believe in keeping things simple. I do not believe in overdoing anything. Whatever you are wearing should make you look comfortable and confident.

Don't think too much of style.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

I've never been a much of a glamour girl.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman.

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I've always liked simplicity.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.