Punctilious Quotes

#1. so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.

Jean Webster

#2. There is little I can tell you about Aglaura beyond the things its own inhabitants have always repeated: an array of proverbial virtues, of equally proverbial faults, a few eccentricities, some punctilious regard for rules.

Italo Calvino

#3. He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

Seneca The Younger

#4. You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins

Norman Mailer

#5. If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Xun Zi

#6. Success is beautiful and dangerous.

Robin Sharma

#7. Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Herman Melville

#8. Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Ann Coulter

#10. The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

C.P. Cavafy

#11. Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

Roald Hoffmann

#12. People don't change," Nina said bitterly. "They just get more punctilious about hiding their true selves.

Ruth Ware

#13. Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

Allen Tate

#14. Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#15. And if you're just operating by habit, then you're not really living. - MY DINNER WITH ANDRE

Brian Christian

#16. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. If she gave up, let them capture her again, they would provide light, or at least food. But the thought of trading freedom for life was repulsive.

Christie Valentine Powell

#18. Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Lynne Truss

#19. If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.

Andrew Cormier

#20. Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

Charles Baudelaire

#21. Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. If you could understand by yourself why a thing was true, you would believe it more than just having it told to you by a teacher.

Kate Griffin

#23. Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

#24. When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.

Paulo Coelho