Unsuitable Quotes
45 quotes by 40 authors
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The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
— Henry Adams
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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and…
— Gustav Mahler
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My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.
— Carol Vorderman
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Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really…
— Mary Oliver
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your…
— Joe Lieberman
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there…
— Voltaire
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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the…
— Terry Pratchett
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By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and…
— Richelle Mead
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Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst…
— Jasper Fforde
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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved…
— John Steinbeck
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I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your…
— Katie MacAlister
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Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was…
— Cassandra Clare
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We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love…
— François Lelord
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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of…
— Kelley Armstrong
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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Unsuitable Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 45 Unsuitable Quotes, led by these top contributors: