Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to…

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

— Charles Rollin

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

— Bret Harte

Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare…

— Novalis

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between…

— Frank Herbert

The best kind of words are those thought of, before spoken.

— Gebru Villars

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

— Frank Herbert

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power.”

— Frank Herbert

Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and…

— Hans Heysen

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

— David Hume

“...there is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.”

— Herman Melville

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

— Martial

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a…

— Jim Cummings

I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass.…

— Lydia Lunch