Quotes About Punctiliousness

When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!

fussy, over-formalized way

fastidiousness

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

You're the cleverest man I know, do you hear?" He corrected himself, and added: "You and Elstir.—You don't mind my bracketing him with you, I hope. You understand—punctiliousness. It's like this: I say it to you as one might have said to Balzac: 'You are the greatest novelist of the century—you and Stendhal.

fussiness, and his