Figures Quote by Jonathan Swift

Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel…

— Mark Ravenhill

Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the…

— Robert Sutton Harrington

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with…

— Ambrose

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down…

— Samuel Johnson

“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question…

— Frank Herbert

My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way…

— Paul Valery

The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and…

— Erik Pevernagie

I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature,…

— Alexander Pope