Famous quotes containing the words idea and/or smoothing:
“To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)