Strict attention to these little punctilios is all important, and their non-observance is always a subject of comment, and frequently determines your position in society. ❋ Sophia Orne (1873)
I am one of your children, after a fashion; I am sure you care for me more as if I were a daughter than as a woman cares for her friend, and the real sympathy between us is when you forget all the usual 'punctilios' between grown-up people, and think of me as of a child, to be taken care of and not be allowed to get into mischief. ❋ Unknown (1892)
I am ready at all times to do what essential services I can, but such punctilios I do not like nor expect from a man of genius. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This ticks many of my fictional boxes: court intrigue, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, a clear and distinct society with its own punctilios and protocols. ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)
These punctilios of the Desert are peculiarly nice and tetchy; nor do strangers readily realise them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Adams avoided seeing the work in progress for fear of upsetting the artist with a chance remark, but Roosevelt, unfettered by such punctilios, insisted on having a look. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)
'Mandlebert is a creature whose whole composition is a pile of accumulated punctilios. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I have sent to Dartmouth a sight of noblemen and gentlemen, maybe a half-hundred; and Valdez himself, who when I sent my pinnace aboard must needs stand on his punctilios, and propound conditions. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is in the grand style, Oriental, dilatory, ponderous, savouring of times when battles were affairs of private arrangement between monarchs and hedged about by all the punctilios of an affair of honour. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There are, my dear Miss Howe, a multitude of punctilios and decorums, which a young creature must dispense with, who, in a situation like mine, makes a man the intimate attendant of her person. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was but a little place, his home, with its pompous ways, small etiquettes and punctilios, small flatteries, small conversations and scandals. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A rigidity which is the nearest she will ever get to understanding the punctilios of his perversion. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Medes and Persians, not to be altered, innovated, or even discussed; and the punctilios exacted by Owen in their business transactions, for he was ❋ Unknown (2005)
Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world? ❋ Unknown (2004)
I have a great many things to say of their military character, and their punctilios of honour, which last are equally absurd and pernicious; but as this letter has run to an unconscionable length, ❋ Unknown (2004)
Early prejudices are for the most part converted into habits of thinking; and accordingly you will find the old officers in the French service more bigotted than their juniors, to the punctilios of false honour. ❋ Unknown (2004)
