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Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle. -- Mason Cooley
Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service. -- Ben Elliot
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous. -- Henny Youngman
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. -- J. J. Abrams
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon. -- Thomas Moore
I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. -- Kevin McCloud
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way. -- Marie Osmond
My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself. -- Joyce Carol Oates
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation. -- Laurie Graham
Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do. -- Bertrand Piccard
I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear. -- Jodhi May
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. -- Thomas Reid
Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious. -- Mason Cooley
Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select. -- E. Merrill Root
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. -- Edward Abbey
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city. -- Mason Cooley
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious]. -- William Penn
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf
they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. -- Fanny Fern
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. -- George Bernard Shaw
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] -- Jean de La Fontaine
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable. -- Leslie Carroll
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again? -- Judith Martin
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil. -- Honore de Balzac
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach. -- Robert Southey
His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant. -- Cassandra Clare
I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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