Comfortable

Famous quotes containing the word comfortable:

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps most of all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)

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