Niceties Quotes
33 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren’t just niceties, they become acts of worship..
— John Wimber
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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
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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
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The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
— Barbra Streisand
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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
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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
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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
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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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