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  • I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.

    People   Feelings   World  
  • I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks
  • A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

    Vanity   Wife   Retiring  
  • Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

    Luxury   Age   Literature  
    Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.104
  • Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a meaning; at least, for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

    Two   People   Mind  
    Cyril Connolly (1953). “Ideas and Places”, London, Weidenfeld
  • I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

    "Grand Designs Kevin McCloud: 'My House Is as Chaotic as Yours'". Interview with Judith Woods, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 27, 2010.
  • So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

    People   Justice   Damage  
    "The algebra of infinite justice" by Arundhati Roy, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
  • The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the conduct which is pleasing and acceptable to God. The doctrines and examples which distinguish the Order are obvious, and suited to every capacity. It is impossible for the most fastidious Mason to misunderstand, however he might slight or neglect them. It is impossible for the most superficial brother to say that he is unable to comprehend the plain precepts and the unanswerable arguments which are furnished by Freemasonry.

    Brother   Blessed   Men  
  • If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

    Women   Race   Would Be  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1931, e-artnow
  • they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

    FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.19
  • A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

    Mind   Disease   Taste  
    Robert Southey (1865). “The Doctor, Etc”, p.42
  • You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.

    Men   Sea   Giving  
  • Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

  • Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

    Thinking   Dust   Perfect  
    Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation
  • Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

    Children   Hands   Shoes  
  • I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

    Makeup   Dust   Perfect  
    Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

    Reading   Book   Men  
    Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics
  • The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

  • The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

    Strong   Men   Class  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”
  • I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

    Safe   Way   Environment  
  • What kind of man reads Playboy? He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex as possible and chooses sexual partners mostly on the basis of appearance. He is self-absorbed and doesn't want emotional involvement or commitment. He thinks a woman and children would be a burden.

  • The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.

  • Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

  • Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

    Blood   Bricks   Goddess  
    Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics
  • His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant.

    Fall   Hands   Tree  
    Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.375, Simon and Schuster
  • The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

    Depressing   Mind   Looks  
  • Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

    Truth   Memories   Use  
  • A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

  • Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

    Funny   Couple   Humor  
  • As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

    Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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