Nicety Quotes

13 quotes by 12 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others… — Jane Austen
• It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
• The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to… — Rose George

Who Wrote These Nicety Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Nicety Quotes as follows:

• 1 Nicety Quote by Ambrose
• 1 Nicety Quote by Stephen Leacock
• 1 Nicety Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 Nicety Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
• 1 Nicety Quote by Rose George
• 1 Nicety Quote by Horace
• 1 Nicety Quote by Maya Angelou
• 1 Nicety Quote by Robert Sutton Harrington
• 1 Nicety Quote by James McCosh
• 1 Nicety Quote by George Plimpton
• 1 Nicety Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Nicety Quote by Flann O'Brien