Wikiquote identifies the Susan Sontag credit as mistaken and instead cites Linda Ellerbee’s Move On (1991), page 35. Its cited wording includes “like everything else”; the original page has not been inspected here.
“Styles change, style doesn't” Source-specific correction: Linda Ellerbee, Move On (1991), p. 35, as cited by Wikiquote. Longer wording; original page not inspected. · Verbatim: “Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.”
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Reported source
Linda Ellerbee, Move On (1991), p. 35
Textual difference
The cited version adds “like everything else”
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Source-specific secondary citation; original page not inspected
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.
The suggested source is a 1991 English memoir. Only a brief identifying sentence is reproduced; no public-domain claim is made.
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Often misattributed
The frequently repeated credit differs from the source-specific correction.
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Incorrectly attributed to Susan Sontag
Wikiquote explicitly marks this credit as misattributed and cites Linda Ellerbee’s 1991 memoir instead.
✓The sourced correction points to Ellerbee; the exact book page remains to be independently inspected.
Context
Why it mattered
Ellerbee’s memoir ranges across changes in television, politics and her own life. The longer formulation distinguishes changing fashions from a more durable sense of personal style; the evidence for this attribution is a specific book citation rather than a surviving Sontag source.
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Linda Ellerbee worked in television news on NBC News Overnight and Our World, and later created and hosted Nick News. Her memoirs include And So It Goes and Move On: Adventures in the Real World.
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Ellerbee, Linda. Move On: Adventures in the Real World. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991, p. 35, as cited by Wikiquote; original page not inspected.
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Quotle.info. “Who really said ‘Styles change, style doesn't’?” Last verified 9 Nov 2026. https://quotle.info/who-said/styles-change-style-doesnt/