"A pretty wife is something for the fastidious……" — Thomas Moore
"A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon."
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58 Quotes by Thomas Moore
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else…
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but…
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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when…
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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More Fastidious Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
— Edward Abbey
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Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes,"…
— Cyril Connolly
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The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
— Mason Cooley
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of…
— William Howard Taft
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
— William Penn
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How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I…
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and…
— Marie Osmond
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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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