I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by… — Horace Copy Share Image
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm… — Jenny Jay Copy Share Image
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Cities should function more like ecosystems, or even metabolisms. When we build, we should be thinking about how we can integrate into… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
