Niceties Quotes

33 quotes by 33 authors

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words… — Horace
I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me… — Jenny Jay
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with… — Maya Angelou
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties. — Mercedes McCambridge
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… — Alexander Pope
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were… — George Plimpton
If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness arenâ€™t just niceties, they become acts of worship.. — John Wimber
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the… — P.G. Wodehouse
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which… — Edith Hamilton
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I… — Flann O'Brien
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life. — Barbra Streisand
My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks… — Ezekiel Emanuel
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary… — Ambrose
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell… — Stephen Leacock
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in… — Karl Marx

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