"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them." — Jean de La Fontaine

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• 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,"… — Cyril Connolly
• The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for,… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker… — Jonathan Carroll
• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. — Mason Cooley
• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of… — 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… — Alice Weaver Flaherty
• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and… — Marie Osmond
• That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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