Comfortable

Famous quotes containing the word comfortable:

“Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady, intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

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