Social Nicety Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.

Dennis E. Shasha

#4. They were princesses once, charged with saving the kingdom from a dragon, and whoever could defeat it would be queen. Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that's the sort of girl she was. She rid the kingdom of the dragon, and then made it its king.

Anne Ursu

#5. I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

Nas

#6. But you should go, if that's what you need to do to get over it. You should go and cry your heart out.

Chica Umino

#7. As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Planck

#9. I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Sally Mann

#10. It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

Eve Ensler

#11. One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#12. It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Odilon Redon

#13. Being in love is not about saying what you would do for her, but what you wouldn't do for her. The answer is nothing.

Case

#14. When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. When all is said and done ...
Be certain to include "YOU" ...

Vernetta Norman

#16. On 'Late Night,' it's like we're all in on the joke. That's what I wanted it to be. I'm not doing something sneaky. Inside jokes, I don't like those. We can all ride together, and everyone's on the same thing going, 'Aha, I know where you're going here.'

Jimmy Fallon

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

Alexandra Katehakis