Nobody ever rioted for austerity.
George Monbiot
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They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.Robert Bridges
Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
Zaha Hadid
Pevsner was very much the German bourgeois Jew - a certain amount of austerity and not a lot of giggles.
Nikolaus Pevsner
He is polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity; modest, wise and good.
George Washington
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
Neville Cardus
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