Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to…

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