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)

“The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations.... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

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