You're about as delicate as an AK-47.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

— Arthur Conan Doyle

My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“Some women walk towards a better future. Others have chauffeurs.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

— Arthur Conan Doyle

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

— Edmond Rostand

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the…

— Howard Staunton

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

— Julia McNair Wright

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

— Homer

Tachyon OPC+ is a natural extension of our market-winning Tachyon platform, giving customers a clear path to minimizing the OPC error budget and producing…

— Bill Vaughan

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

— Jeffrey Wright

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it.…

— John Dyer Baizley

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

— Jenna Morasca

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

— Melissa Marr