--- title: "2 Robert Adam Quotes - Famous Architect (Architecture of Robert and James Adam)" description: "Robert Adam was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's forem..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-adam-79475.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Robert Adam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-adam-79475.jpg) # Robert Adam (1728–1792) Architect **2** quotes in **40** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Robert Adam was an architect, best known for *Architecture of Robert and James Adam*. ## Quick Facts About Robert Adam Born July 3, 1728 Died March 3, 1792 Profession Architect Notable works Architecture of Robert and James Adam ## About Robert Adam Robert Adam was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. ## Quotes by Robert Adam > [We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adam/we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to-social-etiquette-it-is/) Robert Adam [Conformity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/robert-adam-104314_conformity_we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to_867895.jpg) > [By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adam/by-interstate-70-a-dog-skeleton-a-vacuum-cleaner-tv-dinners-a-doll-a/) Robert Adam [Algae](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/algae/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/544/robert-adam-104314_algae_by-interstate-70-a-dog-skeleton-a-vacuum_1478882.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-adam/#itemlist", "name": "Robert Adam Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Adam" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-adam/we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to-social-etiquette-it-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/robert-adam-104314_conformity_we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to_867895.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/robert-adam-104314_conformity_we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to_867895.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/robert-adam-104314_conformity_we-show-wisdom-by-a-decent-conformity-to_867895.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates…” — Robert Adam", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. 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