Quotes of Fuss - somelinesforyou

“ It is the duty of Her Majesty's Government neither to flap nor to falter. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Eventually the hoopla will die down and people will run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss. ”

- James Fixx

“ We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. ”

- John Osborne

“ Much Ado About Nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism. ”

- John Berger

“ Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. ”

- Dr. Benjamin Spock

“ All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesque, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for… ”

- George Orwell

“ It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ The men who had hated and had not particularly loved Helvtius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. ”

- S. G. Tallentyre

“ I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love… ”

- Sharon Tate

“ A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry does not deserve to live. ”

- Savitri Devi

“ What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilization concerns man's behavior to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate. ”

- Dr Edward Mayhew

“ What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else. ”

- H. M. Tomlinson

“ Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us. ”

- Unknown

“ Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a "revolutionary" review, or read a "revolutionary" speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else… ”

- Wyndham Lewis

“ If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ”

- Barbara Cartland
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