Straitlaced Person Quotes & Sayings

His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace. — H.G.Wells

There is also a dog, but he does not understand English, — Isabella L. Bird

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. — Edward Abbey

If your soul is healthy, no external circumstance can destroy your life. If your soul is unhealthy, no external circumstance can redeem your life. — John Ortberg

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. — Anthony Burgess

Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it's gone. Remember that. — Sylvain Reynard

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman

He'd want privacy for his Change and that wasn't vanity. I'm curious about
many things, but witnessing the human-to-wolf transformation isn't one of them.
"I'm going to try picking up visions," I said. "So try to keep the screams of agony to a minimum, okay?"
A muttered epithet. I grinned and walked to the sofa. — Kelley Armstrong

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them. — Densey Clyne

No matter what I really was, no matter what I really meant, uncritical love was what I needed
and my Helga was the angel who gave it to me.
Copiously.
No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love. Good Lord
as youngsters play their parts in political tragedies with casts of billions, uncritical love is the only real treasure they can look for. — Kurt Vonnegut

In some eras, self-control defines the paragon of a decent person: a grown-up, a person of dignity, a lady or a gentleman, a mensch. In others it is jeered at as uptight, prudish, stuffy, straitlaced, puritanical. Certainly the crime-prone 1960s were the recent era that most glorified the relaxation of self-control: Do your own thing, Let it all hang out, If it feels good do it, Take a walk on the wild side. — Steven Pinker

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope. — Dante Alighieri

We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that. — George W. Bush

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa. — Cassandra Clare