Fastidious

Famous quotes containing the word fastidious:

“A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

“A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)