Quotes About Nicety

#1. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

#2. You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Frank Herbert

#3. Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Francois Fenelon

#4. There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal ...

Jane Austen

#5. The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

Ambrose

#6. For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Rick Perlstein

#7. You can't sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you'll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He's prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety. He's ugly, heroic; he roars, he lusts after beauty, he rages after nobility. Be ye not temperate!

Robert Shaw

#8. So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and expect the occasional nicety to count for much. Those bonds break away much more quickly and permanently than most people would like to believe.

Anthony Breznican

#9. 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 it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

Flann O'Brien

#11. The claim that Islam is a religion of peace is a nicety invented by Western politicians so as either not to offend their Muslim populations or simply lie to themselves that everything might yet turn out fine. In fact, since its beginning Islam has been pretty violent.

Douglas Murray

#12. The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Samuel Johnson

#13. Whenever people asked "How are you?" by way of social nicety I lied through my teeth. "Not too bad," I'd say. Or "Swings and roundabouts." At least I didn't say "Fine, thanks." or "A livid scar cuts across my very being.

Julia Leigh

#14. When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Horace

#15. Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

George Plimpton

#17. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Alvin Toffler

#18. Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

George Eliot

#19. There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Jonathan Swift

#20. For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And ooh that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess cooked.

Amor Towles

#21. Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.

Samuel Johnson

#22. I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, 'He doesn't love you. I love you.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#24. Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Paul Dickson

#25. Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite ... and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

Russell M. Nelson

#26. Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Saint Augustine

#27. I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

Randy Moss

#28. Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!

Nicety

#29. The politician is the poorest man in the world, the most empty man, the most hollow - stuffed with straw and nothing else.

Osho

#30. Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Louise Hay

#31. If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

#32. Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

Meredith Vieira

#33. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes
but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Soren Kierkegaard

#35. What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

Carlo Collodi

#36. Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Alexandra Katehakis

#37. I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Dan Quisenberry