Suitability Quotes

Things well fitted abide.

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

Everything has a place and time.

The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

My ability matches the national moment.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

Not knowing whether he [Charles Wiegand] is fit for any place, I could not with propriety recommend him for any.