"Comfortableness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men, the petty virtues, the petty policy, the sand-grain considerateness, the ant-hill trumpery, the pitiable comfortableness, the ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... giving length, fulness, body, substance, to this thin and frail matter of human life. And, as life was so rich in comprehensiveness, the dwellers there made the most of it for the present and future, each generation contriving what it could to add to the cosiness, the comfortableness, the grave, solid respectability, the sylvan beauty, of the house with which they seemed to be connected both before and after death. The family had its home there; not merely the individual. Ancient shapes, that had apparently ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
