Comfortable

Famous quotes containing the word comfortable:

    In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    Civilization is a conspiracy.... Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
    John Buchan (1875–1940)

    The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
    John Gay (1685–1732)