Pecksniffian Quotes

#1. Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

H.L. Mencken

#2. After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

#3. Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

Franz Kafka

#4. Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Dickens

#5. In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

Alan Furst

#6. I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another.

Ray Bradbury

#7. Practice makes perfect.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. I've been obsessed by football since I was young.

Luis Suarez