Nice

Famous quotes containing the word nice:

“An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] Anthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the “white male” into a nice pickle.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Revolution (August 19, 1869)

“Oh! that’s in course—I do love him; why wouldn’t I? for he has a nice little room all decently furnished for any young woman to go into—besides the shop; and he never has the horses at all into the one we sleeps in, as is to be.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

“Women think that an engineer is a man in hip boots building a dam. They don’t realize that 95 percent of engineering is done in a nice air-conditioned office.”
—Beatrice Alice Hicks (1919–1979)