Famous quotes containing the word indifferent:
“I have observed in foolish awe
The dateless mid-days of the law
And seen indifferent justice done
By everyone on everyone.”
—Edwin Muir (18871959)
“This artless young creature [Evelina], with too much beauty to escape notice, has too much sensibility to be indifferent to it; but she has too little wealth to be sought with propriety by men of the fashionable world.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“Fashion required the suppression of all naturalnessto walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handle formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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