Fastidious – Quotes

I\\’m a fastidious sort

I’m a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. Edward Abbey

Discriminate, discriminate, and again

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select. E. Merrill Root

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind. Francis Bacon

they who are not

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. Fanny Fern

Two weeks before his

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. Cyril Connolly

Whatever people may say,

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese

Children of the Nephilim,

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 … Read more

His hands slipped from

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. Cassandra Clare

So here we have

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. Arundhati Roy

How could poetry and

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from … Read more