The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

“The bedroom was larger than our entire cottage. Its walls were pale green, delicately sketched with patterns of gold, and the mouldings were golden…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

But to be able to kiss someone you love when you're fully and completely in control of yourself and know who you are...it's exquisite.…

— Richelle Mead

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

— Oscar Wilde

Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson…

— Bill Watterson

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another…

— Agnes Repplier

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of…

— Karen Marie Moning

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

— Mary MacLane

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches…

— Mark Twain