Quotes About Stuffy

I'm secretly very stuffy.

Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

To me, Christianity was so conservative and stuffy, but for me, it was just a relationship with God. The Church relationship was just so stuffy.

a kind of breathing space in a Paris that was too small, too stuffy for the ambition in their breasts (65)

Golf is elitist, it's stuffy, it's exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I'm still not welcomed in.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

Formality may seem stuffy but it provides fresh air and freedom

in the sweltering attic, and

I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.

Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental.

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

It's for your own good, Kit,' Jane said with an expression of sorely tried patience. 'We don't want to be stuffy, but you are being fanciful, you know' 'Rot!' retorted Kitty.

I was upstairs," she continued, "and it was stuffy, and hot. Only it wasn't hot, but it felt like it should be." It was the damnedest thing, but he understood.

I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be a certain way,' and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose.

They are a stuffy lot, and rather too fond of pomp and circumstance.

Gosh, Bess, you'd think you were going on a date with a hot new guy instead of to a book signing at a stuffy downtown hotel. If I didn't know how much you love romance novels, I'd wonder what had gotten into you.

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.

Sleeping in the back of the van was cramped and a little stuffy-like sleeping in a compartment on a train, Kaitlyn guessed. But she didn't really mind being crowded in with Rob. He was warm and nice to hang on to. Comfortingly solid.

You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more friendly..." "How about 'Dear Fatty'?

The bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.