Fastidious Quotes

34 quotes by 32 authors

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. — George Bernard Shaw
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. — Edward Abbey
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a… — Cyril Connolly
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no… — Jonathan Carroll
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. — Mason Cooley
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the… — William Howard Taft
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious]. — William Penn
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a… — Marie Osmond
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed… — Theodore Roosevelt
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. — Jean de La Fontaine
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. — Kevin McCloud
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. — Thomas Moore
Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous. — Henny Youngman
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag.… — Cassandra Clare

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